On the second day of Mobile World Congress 2025, Europe's two dominant telecom infrastructure vendors — Ericsson and Nokia — unveiled competing visions for the road to 6G, while Silicon Valley giants Google and Meta made unmistakable moves to expand their footprint across the global connectivity ecosystem.
Ericsson announced a formal collaboration with measurement and test specialist Keysight Technologies to advance "pre-6G standardization," with a stated goal of realizing commercial 6G networks by 2030. Freddie Södergren, Head of Technology and Strategy at Ericsson's Networks business, said the partnership represents "valuable steps forward" on the 6G journey. Separately, Ericsson has been working with KDDI and T-Mobile on AI-RAN deployments, with Ericsson's AI-powered base station solutions already enabling improved energy efficiency and user experience in commercial networks, according to analysts at Opensignal present at the show.