Ericsson teams up with several operators on network API's

FILE PHOTO: Ericsson logo is displayed on the company's headquarters building in Stockholm, Sweden July 12, 2024. TT News Agency/Mikaela Landestrom via REUTERS/File Photo

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has created a new joint venture for selling network software tools with over a dozen telecom operators across regions, it said in a statement on Thursday.

It said the firms it joined forces with, in order to accelerate the adoption of application programming interface (API) software, included Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone in Europe, Verizon and AT&T in the U.S. and Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio in India.

(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee and Anna Ringstrom, editing by Stine Jacobsen)