Open source
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Deutsche Telekom is to carry out a full trial of the open systems for 4G and 5G networks in Berlin. -
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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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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Etisalat is building a cloud-native open radio access network (open RAN) service in Afghanistan.
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Oguz Sunay, VP of R&D at the Open Networking Foundation explains the latest advances in radio access networks and how Open Source technology is driving change
Forthcoming events
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Five of the world’s largest telecoms groups have announced an accelerated programme to implement open 4G and 5G this year. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at why the field has suddenly opened up
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Open-source mobile vendor Mavenir has taken a major step to move many of its products to the cloud.
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It is already the fastest growing mobile technology in history, but the success of 5G in 2021 depends, like so much else, on the Covid-19 pandemic. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the mobile industry’s forecasts
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A Nigerian company that specialises in building mobile networks for rural areas is to install open-source technology to deliver 2G, 3G and 4G wholesale services, upgradable to 5G.
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Telefónica’s O2 UK is the latest company to test open-source radio technology, in a trial with UK and Irish vendor Vilicom.
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Japanese incumbent telco NTT and vendor NEC are working together to compete with US-based internet giants in future wireless and optical networks, and to wrest control away from largely English-speaking companies.
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NEC’s new centre of excellence in London for 5G open systems will address a global market, according to a senior executive in Japan.
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The UK government is spending £250 million to help open up the mobile telecoms supply chain and end the dependence on three key suppliers, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia.
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NEC, the vendor that is already supplying open-source 5G equipment to Japan’s Rakuten, is to set up a centre of excellence in the UK.
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Vodafone is to deploy open radio access network (open RAN) technology on 2,600 sites in the UK, one of the biggest such investments yet.
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Mavenir, the open RAN specialist that in September bought UK small-cell company ip.access, has withdrawn its plan to raise US$300 million on the US Nasdaq market.
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Open radio access networks (open RAN) will account for 58% of total RAN capex by 2026 and will be deployed at 65% of all sites.
