Spanish operator Telefonica awarded contracts to roll out its 5G Standalone (SA) radio networks to Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia, local business newspaper Expansion reported.
According to the report Chinese vendor Huawei, was excluded from 5G SA contracts.
The newspaper reported that the decision to award the 5G SA contracts to these two vendors had been adopted by Telefonica last week.
For the transition from 5G NSA to 5G SA, Telefonica will use its 22,000 base stations across Spain and 100 MHz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band as well as the frequencies it intends to bid for in next month’s 700 MHz band auction.
