The valueof 5G

Magnus Ewerbring, PhDVice President, CTO Asia-PacificEricsson

● Source: Ericsson

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Ericsson in 5G

Widest ecosystem of supported devices on 5G live networks

40+

We are leading 5G city deployment in mid and high band in US

65%of 5G US city deployments

First with commercial 5G live networks in 4 continents: Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania Commercial 5G agreements

or contracts with unique operators, 27 live networks

86commercial 5G agreements

Swisscom achieves nationwide coverage with Spectrum Sharing and 5G low band

90%

commercial devices

Nationwidecoverage

First with commercial 5G live networks in 4 continents:

Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania

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5G uptake faster than expectedEricsson Mobility Report, 2025 prediction

2.6bnsubscriptions

29%of mobile subscriptions

45%share of mobile data traffic

65%*

coverage of World’s pop

8.9bnmobile subscriptions

5bnCellular IoT connections

5G

Fast

Responsive

Reliable

forConsumers

&Industries

*Up to

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Data usage in 2025Ericsson Mobility Report

76%video

5G data in 2025 vs. 2/3/4G data in 2019

1.95G

4.2

2/3/4G

2/3/4G

2019 2025

Mobile data traffic Data traffic by application

45%

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5G in the USA

●All operators have 5G service

●Several bands used, high, mid & low

●High bands in urban areas, macro & street-level sites

●Significant performance boost over 4G

84live networks

(operator-cityhigh- & mid-band)

54networks by

Ericsson

T-Mobile

●5G NR coverage on 28 GHz & 600 MHz launched

●>60% pop coverage, over 1M sq. mi.

●In merger with Sprint, will add 2.5GHz band

Source: TMobile

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5G in the USA

Roof-top site, dense urban, high frequency

Wide range

of site types

5G speed

record

High-frequency

site

Live Downlink SpeedCommercial device

5G NR NSA, 28GHz withLTE anchor, 850MHz

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Swisscom, first in Europe with 5GFast coverage expansion with Ericsson technology

●Best network performance

●Best service coverage

● 2 Gbps in key areas

● 1 Gbps elsewhere, 90% pop coverage

●Combined benefit of all carriers

Bern

Zürich

Geneva

Lausanne

Basel

Chur Davos

Launch of 5G, Apr. 20195G NR NSA on 3.5 GHz

Superior performance in key markets

Wide-area launch, Dec. 20195G NR NSA on 2.1 GHz

Superior coverage with existing band

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5G in APAC

●South Korea, first launch with USA

●Rapid build-out, 93% pop coverage, end ’19

●8% 5G subscriptions in Feb. ‘20

●Increased usage, 27.7GB/mo/user (2.8 4G)

●Other launched markets

●China

●Australia

●Thailand

●More markets soon to launch

Source: Ericsson

●Philippines

●Japan

●Hong Kong（China）Focus areas

Coverage – New services – SA – High bands

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Key technologies for better 5G

Ericsson Spectrum Sharing (ESS)

Carrier Aggregation (CA)

5G-ready radios and basebands

Dual-mode5G Cloud Core

4G

5G

Tight interworking

ESS and CA provide 27% extra capacity and 25% better mid band population coverage

+25%better performance

SW migration from non-standalone to standalone in both RAN and core

5GStandalonefaster introduction

We have shipped 5 million 5G-ready radios since 2015

5million radios

4G 5G

Mid band

Low band

CA

+25%

Dynamic allocation of spectrum between 4G and 5G is the best way to deploy 5G

1msspectral efficiency

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SmarTone 5G ambitions

●Best performing network in Hong Kong

●100% Ericsson-provided network

●5G coverage supported with Ericsson Spectrum Sharing

●5G coverage on

●Existing bands with ESS, wide area

●3.5GHz in dense urban

●28GHz in hot spots

Fast 5G coverage

Source: SmarTone

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Ericsson superior Massive MIMO architecture

DL beamforming

Custom silicon

Full receiver

Fronthaul efficiency

Industry-leading energy efficiency

Ericsson Uplink Booster

Superior in mobility

+90% user app coverage

cell-edge uplink speed

10x

Unique advantagesSuperior architecture, full L1 access

• Full interference rejection

• Extreme receiver resolution

• Scales with user data

RAN Compute baseband

EMCA

Superior in-field performance

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AI by design at EricssonAutomated and agile operations for faster TTM and enhanced experience with less OPEX

14% 70% 99%less power consumption

time to market reduction

1 incident for every 100 alarms

Time to market (TTM): from days to hours. Faster service provisioning with Ericsson Dynamic Orchestration

Energy efficiency: 14% less power consumption with AI based Augmented MIMO Sleep-mode

Operations efficiency: Automatic detection, enrichment and prioritization of network incidents

40%Reduction in ERAN design time

Big data analytics applied to analyze 4.3 million permutations for 260 sites

5G Consumersand Industries

Source: Ericsson

Source: Ericsson

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●High awareness of 5G promises, e.g.

●China: 76%

●Singapore & USA: 50%

●Willingness to pay:

●32% premium for half of early adopters

Consumer expectations on 5GEricsson Consumer Lab survey

● Change within 6 monthsChange Immediately

Survey: 22 countries, 35,000 respondents and qualitative research with two expert groups

Likelihood of changing operator if late 5G introduction

APAC country

Early expectations on 5G promises are already there—high risk of churn with late introduction

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●Strong interest in diverse areas, e.g.

●Transport & Automotive

●Logistics

●Manufacturing

●Construction

●Mining

●Aeronautics

●Agriculture

●Ports

●Reliable real-time control with 5G

●Dedicated NW’s for dedicated use

Maturing 5G–driving Industrial applications

Source: Ericsson

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5G revenue potential for operators addressing industry digitalization Share & growth rate

Global service creator, 5G for business addressable market, 2030 share, 2020-2030 CAGR

Source: Ericsson and Arthur D. Little

Adding

39%revenue growth

potential

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5G Evolution and Beyond

●5G deployment and business focus vital for

continued success

●New segments to be served, e.g. Industries

●New insights will drive new requirements

●Need to explore

●Evolution of 5G

●Beyond 5G to 6G

●Considerable potential to evolve systems

Today

5G 5G Evolution 6G

URLLC enhancementsPDCCH enhancements, processing time, ...

PositioningCombination of techniques, ±3 m

V2XSidelink, Uu enhancements, QoS, …

Near-term examples:

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Towards6G

Today

Connectivity everywhere

Joint communication and sensing

Zero-cost, zero-energydevices

Artificially Intelligent Air Interface (AI-AI)

Non-limiting connectivity

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5G drives innovation and business

Ericsson— Unique deployment and performance advantages

— Commercial operation on all 5G bands, 4 continents

— Driving 5G Industry & Consumer applications

— Driving 5G Evolution further ahead towards 6G

5G market — In commercial service

— Rapid uptake

— Wide range of devices

— Large Industry potential

Industries— Strong 5G potential

— Global focus

— Reliability & Security need

— Long life-cycles

Smooth network evolution and deployment at scale

Source: Ericsson