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Samsung Electronics signed a contract with UK telecom operator Vodafone to sell 5G equipment -- its first 5G cellular network deal in Europe.

That market was dominated for years by China’s Huawei and European vendors like Nokia and Ericsson. Washington’s sanctions on Huawei forced many countries to diversify their network suppliers, and the Korean giant is moving in.

The tech company announced Tuesday it will provide Vodafone a set of advanced wireless access technologies needed for the deployment of 5G, including a virtualized radio access (vRAN) system. vRAN enables telecom companies to run networking functions as software in contrast to the widely-used, centralized radio access network that requires physical hardware upgrades.

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