Last year, the governments of Japan and the UK had signed agreement to cooperate with the aim of boosting O-RAN deployments
Japanese telcos NTT Docomo and Rakuten Mobile were selected by the U.K. government to work with local organizations with the aim of advancing the...
In February of 2019, the GSMA board set what it called a “milestone ambition”: The goal to transform the mobile industry so that it would reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. An energy crisis in Europe, and climate-driven natural disasters and...
The DoD said the 5G Challenge will accelerate the adoption of open interfaces and multi-vendor solutions toward the development of an open 5G ecosystem
The FutureG & 5G Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) is launching a 2023 5G...
When bringing CT to live networks, it’s important to build and design for this framework from day one
The move towards continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment or CI/CD and continuous testing (CT) is part of the telecom industry’s larger push for full automation. According to...
Stronger-than-expected O-RAN progress in North America is behind the revision, says Dell'Oro
The Dell’Oro Group published a recent report that the firm said shows that the Open RAN movement has “come a long way in just a few years” and is accelerating faster than initially expected....
NIST says it will 'enhance U.S. leadership in wireless technologies' by joining O-RAN Alliance
Amid U.S. government interest in boosting the Open RAN ecosystem and diversifying telecom supply chains, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has joined the O-RAN Alliance.
“By joining the...
Reducing network energy consumption has become central to communication service providers’ (CSPs) business operations and can help them drastically reduce operating costs. In fact, according to Nokia, energy consumption accounts for nearly half of all telco network operations cost, and as a result, an...
KDDI has been developing O-RAN compliant 5G Open vRAN sites using Samsung's virtualized solutions
Japanese operator KDDI announced that, in cooperation with Samsung Electronics and Fujitsu, it initiated commercial deployment of O-RAN-compliant 5G Open Virtual Radio Access Network (Open vRAN) sites in Osaka, Japan.
“The expansion...
The demo integrated radios with Northrop Grumman’s tactical data links, AT&T’s private 5G network and Fujitsu’s O-RAN Network
AT&T, Fujitsu and Northrop Grumman Corporation said they recently demonstrated 5G-enabled intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in Northrop Grumman’s new 5G lab.
The partners noted that the...
Under the terms of the MoU, ATIS and the O-RAN Alliance will collaborate on advancing the state-of-the-art of open radio access network
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) said it has executed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the O-RAN Alliance to expand collaboration...
1&1 said its O-RAN network will be soon available in Hamburg, Essen, Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Munich and Freiburg
German operator 1&1 announced plans to expand its cloud-based Open RAN in new cities across the country in the coming weeks, the telco said in a release.
Some...
Firms from Japan and the U.K. are expected to begin Open RAN technology sharing this year
The U.K. and Japan announced plans to cooperate to promote Open RAN networks amid the increasing presence of Chinese vendors in the telecom sector, The Japan Times reported, citing...
Mobile network operators, cable companies and hyperscalers are all investing in edge infrastructure, with market drivers including use cases from private cellular networking to edge robotics in industry—as well as disaggregated open networks, said Bejoy Pankajakshan, EVP and chief technology and strategy officer for...
The UK government previously announced efforts to increase the share of open and interoperable equipment in domestic networks
The governments of Australia, Canada and the United States have backed guidelines for telecoms companies, developed by the U.K., designed to build a more competitive and secure...
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 at it. But that delta between hype and reality as it relates to private 5G...
NTT Docomo had selected Samsung Electronics as its 5G network solutions provider in March 2021
Korean vendor Samsung Electronics recently announced that it is supplying a variety of 5G radios to support Japanese telco NTT Docomo’s Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) expansion.
Under the terms of...
"The Open RAN train continues to ... accelerate at a faster pace than expected," analyst firm says
Open RAN revenues for the third quarter of 2022 more than doubled on a year-over-year basis, according to new preliminary estimates by Dell'Oro Group.
"The Open RAN train continues...
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 operational efficiencies from disaggregated radio systems while also charting the course to cloud-based RAN...
Vodafone Idea's CTO said that the telco will continue to carry out O-RAN trials in the country
Indian carrier Vodafone Idea is open to carrying out additional pilots of Open-RAN (O-RAN), and would potentially consider the deployment of O-RAN networks once the technology is mature...
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 key factor to avoid churn. With the emergence of 5G and the demanding commercial...
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 include an emphasis on disaggregated, cloud-based RAN as a vector for innovation, there’s a new...
5G is here, and with the expansion of connectivity comes the challenge of deploying and operating networks that prioritize both performance and reduced energy use.
In the past, each generation of mobile broadband has come with a steep increase in energy use due to the...
Far EasTone’s chairman, Chee Ching, said the telco has been looking to integrate and utilize 5G’s core technologies
Taiwanese mobile operator Far EasTone Telecommunications has signed an agreement with Intel Taiwan to carry out joint research on 5G open virtualized radio access networks, computer vision...
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 software-defined technology based on open interfaces. This enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to source individual...
Open RAN standards help create a level playing field, but there has to be room for innovation
The world of telecoms is, among many other things, an exercise in developing and implementing technologies that have been standardized via a regimented, consensus-driven process. A reductive example—without...
