Parallel Wireless
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Parallel Wireless has partnered with Hotspot Networks, a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to extend coverage to previously unconnected rural sites throughout Nigeria. -
Cellcom and Parallel Wireless confirm the launch of their pilot, which will see the deployment of autonomous 5G standalone (SA) core sites in Israel.
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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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Eugina Jordan, who lost her job – along with many colleagues – at Parallel Wireless in June, is to be chief marketing officer of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP).
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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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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.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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Juniper Networks has partnered Vodafone and Parallel Wireless to conduct a multivendor RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) trial.
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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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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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Orange has resumed its services in the Central African Republic, more than three weeks after its network core and data centre in Bangui were destroyed in a fire.
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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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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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Millicom has started the first moves to open RAN operation in its mobile networks in Latin America.
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Etisalat is building a cloud-native open radio access network (open RAN) service in Afghanistan.
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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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Orange is taking the first steps to move to open RAN in its African mobile networks, a step that will see the operators able to offer 4G and potentially 5G as well as older generations.
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Nokia has announced that it plans to use open systems in its radio network – the first such move by a major vendor at a time when smaller equipment makers are putting their hopes in open ecosystems.
