Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 18 | Page 31

LATEST INTELLIGENCE NORDIC Ericsson and Icelandic service provider, Síminn, are partnering to ramp up the move towards 5G through a core network and radio access modernisation partnership. Síminn will modernise and expand its radio network and continue to deploy the 5G-ready Ericsson Radio System. The companies will also conduct 5G trials enabled by Ericsson 5G New Radio and Ericsson Spectrum Sharing. Síminn is eyeing the introduction of new IoT services on its 4G network – including Narrowband IoT (NB–IoT) and Cat–M1. The agreement aims to accelerate the growth of Iceland’s IoT ecosystem across diverse use cases. POLAND IBM has announced that The Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS), a social insurance provider for farmers in Poland, is adopting IBM Cloud to implement a hybrid cloud strategy that will help modernise its new e-learning platform. Moving its educational programmes about the rules of safe work in farming to the cloud enables KRUS to improve schools’ youth safety. Agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries, placing farmers at high risk for potentially fatal and nonfatal injuries. Until now, KRUS’s educational programmes were only available in pamphlet form and had limited reach. In advance of the summer usage spike, KRUS has revamped the programme for children. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 31