Ericsson has announced its 5G NR Standalone (SA) platform for low-band and midband spectrum. This will work with its dual-mode cloud-native core, announced earlier this year, to provide a full commercial SA system. All Ericsson’s radios developed since 2015 can move to 5G NR SA with a software upgrade. “These standalone capabilities will enable even more use cases and applications,” said Per Navinger, head of product area networks at Ericsson, in a statement. He said he expects operators to add 5G NR to existing 4G sites and also to deploy it in new networks, especially in unconnected environments such as factories. Devices that support SA can connect to a 5G network six times more quickly than a device operating in NSA mode,…