Nokia said it resumed its technical contribution to the O-RAN Alliance, after the group offered assurances its work complied with U.S. legislation.
In a blog, Nokia’s Mobile Networks president Tommi Uitto explained Nokia’s commitment to Open RAN and that the alliance remained as strong as...
A Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) is an agile approach to RAN deployment and management that offers carriers the promise of improved operational efficiency and better flexibility to meet the myriad demands of 5G enterprise customers. vRAN and OpenRAN are often discussed in the...
Telefónica and NEC announced an agreement to carry out Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Spain, Germany, the U.K. and Brazil, the Spanish carrier said in a release.
Telefónica said it has a target of reaching 50% radio network growth based on...
Italian operator Telecom Italia (TIM) announced the activations of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) systems in the cities of Matera and Turin following its first use of the technology in Faenza earlier this year.
The European operator said the aim is to accelerate the...
Opex is operator’s primary problem, Huawei exec said; RAN is around 12% of per-site capex
Of the big three global infrastructure providers, Huawei has been the least active in formal development of Open RAN-related technical specifications and delivery of compliant products. The reason, according to...
Dish Network is asking the Federal Communications Commission for a special temporary authorization to use 600 MHz band spectrum currently licensed to Bluewater Wireless for a three month period with the aim of carrying out 5G tests in Denver and Las Vegas using carrier...
Open RAN in 2020 was all about communicating the value proposition and gaining validation from major global operators. In 2021, with that validation in hand, the Open RAN ecosystem is pushing toward delivering on those benefits. Priorities include a broader pool of hardware support,...
Nokia joined the O-RAN Alliance in 2018, the first major RAN vendor to do so
Finnish RAN vendor Nokia has been considered a driving force behind the telecom industry’s Open RAN push; however, the company is now suspending its work with the O-RAN Alliance, citing...
Open RAN brings "smarter economics" to operators, Airspan Networks CEO says
On August 16, Airspan Networks Holdings Inc. began trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "MIMO" following a business combination with the special purpose acquisition company New Beginnings Acquisition Corp. In the run-up...
Triangle Communications opts for Mavenir Open RAN kit to replace Huawei gear
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in its effort to get Huawei, ZTE and other "untrusted" equipment out of domestic networks, will begin reimbursing rural and regional network operators for rip-and-replace costs in October....
Japanese companies NEC and Fujitsu have begun developing technologies for interoperability testing between 5G base station equipment conforming to O-RAN specifications at NEC's U.K. laboratories and Fujitsu's U.S. laboratories.
Both companies are expected to build a verification environment using these technologies in their respective laboratories,...
What began primarily as a marketing push, reducing energy consumption has become central to communication service providers’ (CSPs) business operations and as a way to drastically reduce operating costs. In fact, Nokia’s Head of Marketing for Managed Services Volker Held revealed that when implemented...
Dish Network expects to launch 5G wireless services in Las Vegas in a beta phase during the fourth quarter of the year, the company’s Chairman Charlie Ergen said during a conference call with investors.
The executive said that the 5G network in Las Vegas...
Marvell is a recognized leader in the data center chipsets market. However, when it comes to cellular space, despite being a valuable silicon provider to major network vendors, Marvell has largely remained away from the limelight. But that is set to change with the...
There is little doubt that communication service providers (CSPs) will need to extend and increase their RAN capacity to accommodate new 5G services. CSPs are using their 5G buildouts as an opportunity to move away from legacy, proprietary RAN technology to an Open RAN architecture. Current...
German operator 1&1 AG and Japanese company Rakuten Group announced they are entering into a long-term partnership to build the former’s mobile network, which will become the fourth mobile network in Germany.
Together with Rakuten, 1&1 will build what it claims to be Europe's first...
Altiostar virtualized and Open RAN tech is already part of the Rakuten Communications Platform
Building on their existing relationship which has seen Rakuten Mobile use Altiostar virtualized RAN software in its greenfield Japanese network, as well as inclusion in the company's Rakuten Communications Platform...
Open RAN in 2020 was all about communicating the value proposition and gaining validation from major global operators. In 2021, with that validation in hand, the Open RAN ecosystem is pushing toward delivering on those benefits. Priorities include a broader pool of hardware support,...
Keysight Technologies joined forces with Xilinx and Cisco to showcase fronthaul solutions that support a smooth migration from traditional 4G LTE networks to 5G open radio access networks (O-RAN).
Keysight Technologies noted that multi-vendor Radio Access Network (RAN) deployments based on open standard interfaces defined...
Parallel Wireless and Neptune Communications will use Open RAN to provide mission-critical voice, data service to government agencies in Barbados
Parallel Wireless and Neptune Communications are laying claim to delivering the first Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 4G LTE solution in the Caribbean. Neptune’s 4G LTE...
Intel and Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel announced a collaboration to drive network development of 4G and 5G virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and open radio access network (RAN) technology.
Work by Intel and Airtel will evolve communications networks from fixed-function equipment to virtualized cloud-native...
Etisalat, STC, Zain, Mobily, and du, commit to deploying Open RAN
Major global operators seem committed to overhauling radio access network deployment models with a quintet of Middle Eastern operators signing a memorandum of understanding "to push forward the implementation of...Open RAN solutions in...
Deutsche Telekom launched O-RAN Town in the city of Neubrandenburg this past June
Mavenir has deployed Open vRAN, integrated with massive MIMO (mMIMO) Active Antenna Units (AAU), as part of Deutsche Telekom’s, “O-RAN Town” in Germany to deliver a 5G Non-Standalone Architecture (NSA) service. The...
Capgemini Engineering along with it’s 5G partner ecosystem, has developed a cognitive 5G Medium Access Controller (MAC), which is first in series of activities planned as part of Capgemini’s Project Marconi. Project Marconi includes a series of innovations targeted towards realizing cognitive capabilities as...
