Open RAN
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Axiata subsidiary Edotco, a Southeast Asian telecom infrastructure provider, has announced a strategic partnership with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP).
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AT&T and Ericsson today announced they have begun deploying Ericsson Cloud RAN technology on AT&T’s commercial 5G network.
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Telus is building Canada’s first 5G open radio access network (Open RAN) and is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise which is providing infrastructure across 3,000 sites.
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Mavenir has announced it is in the advanced commercial phase of an Open RAN network pilot deployment for Vodafone Idea in India.
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Samsung, Vodafone and AMD have teamed to complete an end-to-end call with the latest AMD processors, using Open RAN technology.
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Verizon’s deployment of 130,000 Open RAN radios, compatible with specifications from the O-RAN Alliance marks a significant industry shift in momentum for open networking according to Kristian Toivo, executive director at Telecom Infra Project.
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Aramco Digital and Intel plans to establish Saudi Arabia’s first Open RAN (radio access network) development centre.
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Nokia and Deutsche Telekom (DT) have begun to deploy a multi-vendor Open RAN network with Fujitsu in Germany.
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Ericsson and AT&T have announced a five-year network transformation and digitalisation project.
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Vodafone and Nokia will pilot a commercial 5G Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) trial in Italy for the first time.
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The UK Government has announced 19 successful projects in its Open Networks Ecosystem (ONE) Competition.
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Starlink services were cut off by Musk during a planned drone strike, sparking fury from Ukrainian generals
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The partnership will accelerate Ericsson’s 5G capabilities and use Intel technology to make sure it is ready for the next generation.
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Nokia has been selected by Orange Jordan to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment in Jordan.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has picked Mavenir as its Open RAN network vendor.
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Digital Catapult and Ofcom will partner to open new Open RAN testing facilities as part of its SONIC Labs (SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre) programme, funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
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EdgeQ has partnered with Vodafone and Dell Technologies to launch an ORAN-based, massive MIMO solution.
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Orange and Vodafone are looking for strategic vendors for a pioneering open RAN collaboration in Romania.
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Five of Europe’s biggest mobile operators said today that they plan to deploy open RAN networks from 2025, following trials.
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Vodafone has built a prototype 5G network using a Raspberry Pi computer that can serve a home or office.
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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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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.
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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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AT&T has revealed it is running proof of concept (PoC) tests for Open RAN technology.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Parallel Wireless is partnering with Inatel, Telecom Infra Project (TIP), Brisanet, Claro, TIM, and Vivo to conduct an Open RAN field trial in Brazil.