Reducing competition will not affect 5G deployment costs, says Ericsson

New Delhi: Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson has junked the argument that the cost of 5G network rollout in India will increase if some companies are barred from doing business in the country. Chinese telecom gear major Huawei and some third party industry reports have claimed that rolling out 5G technology will become expensive if the Chinese company is blocked from any country as the remaining firms will jack up prices.

“We have launched 5G in four continents in the last twelve months and we are first in those four continents. The four continents are America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In some of those continents we are alone… and it is working very well. So I mean, in practice it is not true right? We can make it work everywhere,” Ericsson’s Head South East Asia, Oceania and India, Nunzio Mirtillo told in an interview.