Orange France picks Ericsson for 5G real time charging Orange France has signed a five-year agreement to make Ericsson Charging its strategic monetization platform for its 5G subscribers, setting the stage for more advanced services that exploit 5G Standalone (SA) capabilities scheduled for launch in 2023. The cloud-native Ericsson Charging solution will serve nearly 28m Orange France customers, as well as private mobile radio users and 20m IoT devices, through a software container-based system using Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure Solution (CNIS). Ericsson Charging will be integrated with legacy business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) billing platforms. The foundation for this move came in 2019 when Orange France selected Ericsson as its BSS provider for real time online charging system…