Ericsson gets Virgin Media O2 5G SA core gig

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson’s relationship with O2 UK has been maintained after the latter’s merger with Virgin Media.
The enduring marriage yielded its latest progeny in the form of a deal for Ericsson to build VMO2’s standalone 5G core, which will be integrated with the 4G and non-standalone 5G ones to make what Ericsson calls a dual-mode 5G core. There is presumably all manner of cleverness that has to take place to make all these cores play nice with each other and, since t