O-RAN
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Vodafone confirms plans to build new Open Radio Access Network (RAN) sites in 20 cities across Romania. -
Orange and Vodafone are looking for strategic vendors for a pioneering open RAN collaboration in Romania.
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The island of Bermuda is to get a new mobile competitor, that will be fully cloud-based.
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Japanese equipment vendor NEC is taking its US-based acquisition, Blue Danube Systems, and turning it into an innovation hub for open RAN.
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Japanese operator KDDI has chosen Californian vendor Wind River for its O-RAN-compliant 5G virtualised base station plans.
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Open RAN revenues will account for around 15% of the overall 2G-5G RAN market by 2026, according to a new estimate from the Dell’Oro group.
Forthcoming events
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KT Corporation, NTT DOCOMO and Fujitsu have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further their cooperation on a 5G Open RAN Ecosystem.
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Two months after Nokia announced radio access network deals with Japan’s KDDI and SoftBank, the Finnish vendor has said it is ready to supply open RAN equipment to their rival, NTT DoCoMo.
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Equipment vendor Mavenir has announced a partnership with HCL Technologies that will help speed the move to open radio access networks (O RAN).
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Deutsche Telekom is to carry out a full trial of the open systems for 4G and 5G networks in Berlin.
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US company Viavi Solutions is working with Capgemini on a 5G and open RAN test laboratory, to be based in Portugal.
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Open RAN software company Parallel Wireless is expanding its R&D in centres in India, Israel, the US and the UK
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Ontix, a company building small-scale wireless networks in the UK, is to pilot open RAN technology inside buildings.
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Juniper Networks is collaborating with Intel to accelerate the development of the Open RAN (O-RAN) ecosystem.
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Nokia has paused its activities with the industry’s leading open RAN organisation because of threats that Washington could impose the same penalties to those on Huawei.
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Japanese vendors Fujitsu and NEC are collaborating to ensure their open RAN 5G equipment works together.
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Japanese group Rakuten is transforming itself into a vendor as well as an operator with an agreed bid for Altiostar, valuing the vendor at US$1 billion.
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Network integrator STL, has partnered Facebook Connectivity to design and develop 4G and 5G radio products.
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Open RAN and small cell specialist Mavenir has added to the responsibilities of its chief strategy officer, Bejoy Pankajakshan, by making him chief technology and strategy officer.
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Five Middle East mobile operators have announced they are working together to push forward their work towards open RAN technology in their networks.
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Vodafone and Mavenir said today they are working on a small cell solution based on open RAN technology, to provide indoor 4G connectivity for business customers.
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Orange has announced what it calls “the network of the future”, an experimental cloud-based network that it hopes will eventually provide “ambient connectivity”.
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Deutsche Telekom has switched on its first open RAN service, in the north German town of Neubrandenburg.
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Mavenir has jumped in ahead of next week’s mainly virtual Mobile World Congress to announce a 4G and 5G partnership with chipmaker Qualcomm.
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Nokia got it wrong with its first attempt to develop 5G equipment, but now thinks it’s turned itself around, the company has admitted.
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MTN has picked two Indian companies and three US companies for its move to open RAN technology, which it plans to start this year.
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Nokia has moved into the open RAN era by opening its first collaboration and testing centre, open to competing vendors.
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The top four vendors in the emerging open RAN market are Parallel Wireless, Altiostar, Intel and Mavenir, according to a new report.
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The five large European telcos working together on open RAN have published their list of technical priorities as a way of encouraging vendors to move into the business.
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The Asia-Pacific region is driving the surging market for open RAN networks, according to a new survey.
