At Ericsson’s pre-MWC analyst day, CTO Erik Ekudden set the stage. “There is a circular megatrend of digitalization, in AI, mobile, and cloud. Physical AI is not that far into the future, and as we are moving from mobile broadband to ‘advanced connectivity,’ we will take these technologies together.” Ekudden continued, saying that “5G has two vectors; scaling new use cases, like smart glasses, but also expanding into new sectors, such as NTN – a complementary technology in the stack.” Ekudden said that he thinks the industry is underestimating FWA, both in terms of the opportunity and the traffic load – noting that in five years, FWA connections will reach around 18% of the total fixed broadband connections. Defense and…