Open RAN
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BAI Communications has been awarded grant funding as part of the Department of Digital Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) Open RAN Research and Development (R&D) collaboration to boost connectivity and reduce energy consumption. -
Four leading English-speaking economies have aligned their strategies for secure mobile infrastructure, continuing from the 5G era into 6G.
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Vodafone confirms plans to install OpenRAN on 16 mobile masts providing connectivity to customers in Exmouth and Torquay.
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Bharti Airtel will team up with Meta to invest in global connectivity infrastructure and CPaaS-based new-age digital solutions to support customers and businesses in India.
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Orange has concluded a long-term agreement for the provision of international roaming services with Germany’s 1&1 mobile network.
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The O-RAN Alliance, a community of mobile operators, vendors and research institutions, has appointed Deutsche Telekom’s Alex Jinsung Choi as its new chairman.
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Wind River is collaborating with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to host virtualised radio access network (vRAN) solutions on Wind River Studio.
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Mavenir, the software company that is funded by the climate-change and 2020 election denying Koch family, is working with Google Cloud to make available cloud-native 5G solutions.
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Parallel Wireless will work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy its cloud-native Any G (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G) wireless network, leveraging Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere.
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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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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has issued its first standard covering open radio access networks, the open-source technology that many see as likely to reduce the cost of mobile telecoms.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), NEC Corporation and Rakuten Symphony have announced that their joint multi-vendor Open RAN deployment is entering the field phase, with the activation of the first live sites in VMO2’s commercial network.
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Infovista has announced support for Open RAN planning with the launch of a new AI-powered RF planning solution.
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Parallel Wireless CEO Steve Papa has blamed customers wanting to move too fast to open RAN for the company’s mass firings last month.
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NEC has acquired Aspire Technology as it looks to increase its capacity to deliver end-to-end Open RAN ecosystems, the company announced today.
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Former Parallel Wireless staff in India, Israel, the UK and the US are looking for work following wide-scale layoffs in the open RAN specialist this week.
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Vodafone is to build an open RAN mobile network around the Torquay area of south-west England.
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stc has announced it has successfully deployed a multi-layer 4G and 5G NSA networks on an Open RAN platform.
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