Agile 5G Deployment

Launching new Ericsson Radio System

solutions for a simpler and faster rollout of 5G

Ericsson Business Area Networks September 5, 2018

A fast changing, increasingly complex market

50% traffic growth YoY Significant new

Additional capacity spectrum assets
required available
Mid-band and High-
band allocated to
MBB and Fixed
Wireless
New services with Accelerating 5G
new requirements RAN hardware
IoT, Public Safety, investments need to
Evolved video be 5G-proof

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Traffic growth accelerated by new applications
Mobile data traffic per active smartphone (GB/month) Emerging applications
Middle East and Africa 2017 Downlink
2023 [CATEGO
1 Gbps RY
2017 NAME]
North East Asia 2023
100 Mbps Health
Care
South East Asia and 2017
Oceania 2023
10 Mbps
[CATEGO [CATEGO
2017 RY RY
Latin America 2023 NAME] NAME]
[CATEGO
RY
India 2017
2023 3 Mbps NAME]

Central and Eastern 2017

Europe 2023
2017 1 Mbps
Western Europe
2023

North America 2017

2023
0 10 20 30 40 50
1 Mbps 3 Mbps 10 Mbps 100 Mbps Uplink

Data traffic growing in all markets Application evolution

Source: Ericsson Mobility Report
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Ericsson 5G launches
2015 2016 2017 2018

Ericsson Radio Gigabit LTE and 5G Platform 5G software and

System Elastic RAN new radios

— Ericsson Radio System — Software delivered for — Ericsson 5G Platform — Ericsson introduces 5G
architecture meets industry’s first introduced with 5G commercial software
mobile network commercial Gigabit LTE core, radio and for radio and core
demands flexibly on the with download speeds transport portfolios networks
road to 5G up to 1 Gbps together with digital
support systems, — Portfolio expanded
— All Ericsson Radio — New Elastic RAN transformation services with multi-band-
System radios since interconnects network and security compact, and Massive
2015 upgradeable to baseband modules for MIMO, and Street
5G with software optimal coordination Macro radios
installation

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Operator challenges

Migration to new technologies while protecting existing

network investment

Adding capacity in the face of ever growing traffic

demand

Network flexibility to create new use cases while minimizing

total cost of network ownership

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Ericsson Radio System for faster and more
versatile 5G deployments

Spectrum utilization
Flexible migration of operator spectrum to 5G with
Ericsson Spectrum Sharing

Network densification
Increase capacity with Street Macro and compact transport solution

RAN deployment
RAN Compute architecture for flexibility in
deployment of RAN functions

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 Solutions to maximize spectrum potential

Coverage Capacity Latency

High bands
(24 GHz – 40 GHz) Transport for Street
New

Macro
Mid bands II
(3.5 GHz – 8 GHz)
New RAN
Mid bands I Compute
(1 GHz – 2.6 GHz) Ericsson
Legacy
Spectrum
Low bands
(Sub – 1 GHz) Sharing
New/legacy

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Ericsson Spectrum Sharing Spectrum utilization

simplifies 5G introduction

Enables 5G in Adds 5G traffic

Enables 73%
nation-wide 5G of 4G first movers*
existing bands intelligently
coverage day one gained market share

* Source: Ericsson study of 15 largest 4G markets in the world, based upon the number of subscriptions of all technologies. (Data from Ovum’s WCIS
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Complete mmW 5G Street Macro Network

solution densification

Macro

Street Macro
Output power

Ease of site build

Micro

Indoor
Backhaul Baseband Fronthaul Radio

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Current Ericsson Radio System Baseband RAN deployment

- World-leading portfolio
Baseband
Baseband Baseband
5212 /
6318 6303
5216

— Highest capacity
Baseband — Multi-standard Baseband
6620 / — Ready for IoT and 5G 6502
6630

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Ericsson Radio System – introducing RAN RAN deployment

Compute

New 2G 3G 4G 5G

5G Plug-ins
M-IoT

Radio + Indoor RAN Compute Transport Radio Site System Software ENM Services

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Four new products in RAN Compute RAN deployment

portfolio
Up to 3x
New New capacity

Radio
Baseband
Processor
6641
6337
Tailored
outdoor &
indoor
New New solutions

Radio
Baseband
6648
Processor Up to
6347 30%
TCO savings

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Best TCO with New Ericsson Radio
System Enclosures
New
Enclosure
6160
Simple Product
Site IoT
Architecture
New Enclosure
6360

Efficient Power
Site Build
Distribution

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 Summary

— Mobile broadband growing at a rapid pace

— Ericsson Spectrum Sharing to enable  faster and simpler
rollout of 5G
— Integrated transport for 5G Street Macro to increase
capacity and shorten time-to-market in urban areas
— RAN Compute introduced to increase RAN deployment
flexibility throughout the network
— Today’s Ericsson Radio System investment prepares
operators for 5G

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