Many Ericsson customers will be pleased that the company has just released a three-sector dual-band radio to increase FDD 5G capacity. The news will be especially heartening for those operators compelled reluctantly to phase out their inventory of Huawei kit, given that the Chinese vendor had already launched comparable capabilities in February 2020. The move will therefore help address the ‘Huawei deficit’ that some operators have feared will blunt their competitive edge in coming years. Similar to Huawei’s product, Ericsson’s new Radio 6626 supports dual-band operation across 900 MHz and 800 MHz as well as across 1.8 GHz and 2.1 GHz, while converging separate radios for three geometrical sectors down to one. Typically, base stations have employed sector antennas for directional…