Discussed: Ericsson buys Vonage, AWS announces Private 5G, and more.

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• Ericsson to acquire Vonage — Ericsson enters into agreement for USD 6.2 billion cash offer to acquire Vonage, a global provider of cloud-based communications, with unanimous approval of the Vonage Board of Directors
• Announcing preview of AWS Private 5G — Today, we are announcing the preview of AWS Private 5G, a new managed service that helps enterprises set up and scale private 5G mobile networks in their facilities in days instead of months.
• More on AWS Private 5G – branded to begin, partners to join, carriers included (sort of) — So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some useful clarification about its direction of travel, and passing reassurance to public network operators, with which it is hammering out separate co-creation style deals at both the network edge and the ‘far’ edge.