Orange Spain continues its 5G Standalone (SA) commercial rollout, as many European operators stall in their deployments. Orange announced 5G SA commercially in February 2023, to show off at MWC 2023, but has now launched the service properly in Bilbao, Alicante, Sabadell, Hospitalet, Castellon and Valladolid. The operator stressed it wanted to be sure of providing extensive coverage in these cities before activating SA, which will be available in over 90% of those metropolitan areas. Ericsson and Nokia are sharing provision of the SA Core equipment, while Oracle has been chosen for 5G Core signaling and routing. This will enable those more advanced capabilities such as granular network slicing, massive machine support (mMTC), and ultra-low latency (URLLC). NSA (Non-Standalone) 5G…