Open RAN

Verizon has committed to virtualizing 20,000 sites by 2025; so far, it has virtualized more than 10,000 with Samsung Verizon has added its first Ericsson virtualized cell site to further …

Vodafone is bringing Open RAN out of rural areas for the first time, with 16 masts in Exmouth and Torquay, England Vodafone announced this week that it is deploying Open RAN …

Build, deploy, run: The private 5G network lifecycle Private 5G networks, to some degree, are billed as a panacea for enterprise business problems—whatever your issue is, throw some high-powered connectivity …

Meta’s 2Africa Pearls will connect to Airtel’s landing in Mumbai, extending the world’s longest subsea cable Even as Indian telco Bharti Airtel continues its aggressive 5G rollout across the country, the company …

This report, a companion to the Open RAN Forum, aggregates, analyzes and contextualizes the wide-ranging discussions from expert speakers, including technology buyers, sellers, policy makers and innovators driving capital and …

Funded by the Japanese government, Rakuten’s new lab should be open in March 2023 Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony UK announced Monday plans to open what they’re calling an Open RAN Customer …

Subscribers expect their mobile operator to deliver a seamless Quality of Experience when using voice, video services and OTT applications and in a highly competitive market, ensuring QoE is a …

The two companies hope to drive standardized RIC testing with the new solution Viavi Solutions on Wednesday announced that it’s signed a partnership agreement with VMware to develop a testbed as a …

The RIC will be offered for free to Rakuten Symphony customers who buy Symworld applications As the focus of Open RAN discussion expands beyond capex and opex savings to also …

Experts cite agility, cost savings and support as key focus areas At its essence, Open RAN disaggregates Radio Access Network (RAN) functionality from specialized, bespoke hardware to vendor-neutral hardware and …

CEO Tareq Amin said a per-appliance software subscription fee “killed my business model”  Rakuten Mobile is in the process of removing Red Hat software from its network deployment in Japan, …

Tareq Amin discussed the outlook for Rakuten Symphony software-first market approach  Over the past three-plus years, I’ve interviewed Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin a number of times in one-on-one and …

The role of operators and network disaggregation in enabling the metaverse vision takes center stage at FYUZ MADRID–The three-day FYUZ event was, in some ways, three distinct but complementary things—on …

Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo also aim to remotely connect their O-RAN test capabilities in the U.K. and Japan U.K. telecom group Vodafone and Japanese telco NTT Docomo reached an agreement …

The operator hopes to equip 30% of all its European sites with Open RAN by 2030 Following successful field tests earlier this year in Plauen, Germany, Vodafone has announced a …

At Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, Dell Technologies and Wind River jointly announced Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Wind River, which will simplify telco cloud network deployment and management. These …

As operators and vendors delve deeper into the development and testing of Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN), the RAN Intelligent Controller, or RIC, is one of the main elements …

The lab will be used to explore how technologies like 5G and Open RAN can support public safety use cases The New South Wales (NSW) Telco Authority has selected NEC …

Open RAN provides enterprises with better control over their entire wireless infrastructure Private 5G networks enable enterprises to secure dedicated bandwidth, custom-tailoring their experience based on their specific needs — …

The groups hope to kickstart 5G RAN xApp research with the new tool  Mavenir has announced the release of ns-O-RAN, an open-source Open RAN simulator developed with researchers at Northeastern University’s Institute …

Throughout the Open RAN Global Forum (register for on-demand access to the virtual event here), there was a recurring theme around Open RAN being part of a larger technological transformation …

TCS will host its Cognitive Network Operations Platforms on Wind River Studio, said a TCS VP Wind River announced this week a collaboration with Tata Consulting Services (TCS), the IT …

Orange has made large-scale commitments to deploy Open RAN systems across its network footprint over the coming decade. Ahead of large-scale deployments, the operator has built an experimental network in …

The consensus is that interoperability has made material progress but there’s still work to do As Open RAN has gained momentum in recent years, there’s been this recurring talking point …

Open RAN one of many vectors of network transformation focused on service differentiation, operational efficiencies In the process of building out, expanding and advancing its 5G network, Verizon has for …