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Does Rural 5G Deal Change The Bull Case For Ericsson Stock?
In September 2026, Nex-Tech Wireless and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson announced a four-year agreement to modernize roughly 85% of Nex-Tech Wireless' rural Kansas RAN footprint, deploy a cloud-native 5G Standalone core, and introduce new network hosting capabilities for other operators.
The deal gives Ericsson a deeper role in rural U.S. 5G infrastructure by tying its AI-capable RAN hardware, dual-mode 5G Core, and Telco DataOps platform directly to Nex-Tech Wireless' long-term network and...