Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 33 | Page 33

LATEST INTELLIGENCE RUSSIA Ericsson has supported Tele2 in upgrading the operator’s infrastructure with 25,000 5G-ready base stations across Russia in just 18 months. The update, which covers all 27 regions of Russia, has increased capacity and enhanced network performance by a factor of 1.7. The installation and launch of Ericsson’s base stations on Tele2’s network saw the completion of 50% of the five-year network modernisation deal reached during MWC 2019 in Barcelona and follows the first 5G zone in the centre of Moscow in August 2019. BELGIUM Proximus CEO, Guillaume Boutin, and Alex Goldblum, CEO of Eurofiber, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming at building a fibre network in Wallonia together. The main objective of the partnership is to enlarge and accelerate the rollout of Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) in a cost-efficient way, while ensuring access for all interested parties under open access and nondiscriminatory terms. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 33