In September last year, Swedish network infrastructure vendor Ericsson announced it would invest $100 million in a U.S. smart factory to help facilitate rapid network deployments for domestic customers. Today the company announced it has produced the first 5G base station, millimeter wave Street Macro units, at the new factory.
Ericsson is working with both AT&T and Verizon on their ongoing millimeter wave network deployments, and is also engaged with T-Mobile, which plans to use millimeter wave as party of a three-tiered spectrum strategy reliant on its merger with Sprint.
