Vodafone Germany announced the establishment of a 5G R&D facility in the city of Dresden, in the state of Saxony.
Vodafone said that the new center will focus on research and development into technologies such as 5G and future 6G systems, as well as specific...
By all accounts, 5G is off to a great start in 2021. Adoption has accelerated four times faster than previous LTE technology, resulting in 229 million 5G subscriptions worldwide as of December 2020. Yet even as users embrace the promise of 5G, the increasing...
Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile signed two different agreements with compatriot companies Fujitsu and NEC to carry out joint efforts to develop and promote Open RAN solutions for the global market.
Rakuten Mobile and Fujitsu said they will collaborate to jointly develop 4G and 5G Open...
Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network already reaches 80% of the country’s population, with plans to reach 96% this summer.
In a conference call with investors, Rakuten Mobile’s President Yoshihisa Yamada said that the company has already reached limited 5G services in...
Millicom has selected Parallel Wireless for the deployment of O-RAN-compliant Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) architecture in Latin America.
The O-RAN network will be deployed by Millicom’s subsidiary Tigo Colombia, with the aim of delivering 4G service coverage in 362 rural sites across the...
Japanese companies NTT and Fujitsu Limited formed a strategic business alliance to conduct research in the mobile communications and optical transport fields, with the aim of expanding into the global market and delivering sustainable infrastructure.
In a joint statement, the partners said that they will...
Open RAN and virtual RAN have gotten so much media attention lately that some even call it just “hype.” But there is no denying the fact that there has been tremendous commercial traction and meaningful progress in making these concepts mainstream. There was another...
VMware has announced the launch of its VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN, a platform that enables Communication service providers (CSPs) to virtualize radio access network (RAN) functions and implement an open RAN architecture.
“A modern, open, and disaggregated RAN offers CSPs the single best opportunity...
TIM's "Beyond Connectivity" program focuses bringing AI and cloud to bear on network operations
Major European operators in January signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their multi-year commitment to deploy Open RAN technologies throughout their coverage areas. Now Italy's TIM has announced it will work...
U.K. telco Vodafone has announced the launch of an Open RAN (O-RAN) test and validation laboratory on its Newbury campus, the operator said in a statement.
The operator said that the new lab will be the first dedicated research and development facility for O-RAN in...
Open RAN vendors are racing to catch up with incumbent Single radio access network (SRAN) vendors when it comes to providing a complete, comprehensive offer. Going forward, Open RAN will be one of the foundations for building RAN, and as such, the new mainstream....
Massive MIMO solutions set for Q4 availability
The availability of Open RAN-compatible massive MIMO radios has been on operator wish lists for some time as they look to bring disaggregated radio access network kit into more demanding, urban deployments. Cloud-native network specialist Mavenir this week...
Performance, end-to-end responsibility among Open RAN concerns expressed by Huawei Carrier Business Group CTO
Of the big three network infrastructure vendors, Nokia has been the most adaptive in regard to Open RAN while Ericsson, an active member of the O-RAN Alliance, is also making product...
Etisalat signed an MoU with Rakuten Communications Platform for cloud-native, Open RAN support
Etisalat, following a joint announcement with Rakuten Communications Platform to develop a reference design for cloud-native, Open RAN networks, is furthering its commitment to disaggregation of the radio access network through a...
Wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks says it has been selected by Brazilian carrier TIM to participate in the joint work being carried out with the Telecom Infra-Project (TIP) and the National Telecommunication Institute (INATEL) to test providers for 5G Open RAN (O-RAN).
The open field...
Telefónica brand Movistar using Open RAN in Puerto Madryn, Argentina
One of the persistent questions related to Open RAN is whether the shift from integrated radio stacks to multi-vendor Open RAN kit presents a trade off between lower capex with increased system integration costs. With...
Japanese mobile service provider NTT DoCoMo has selected Samsung as a 5G network solution provider. Samsung will specifically support the carrier’s next phase of its Open RAN development.
The agreement represents the first time that Samsung has directly supplied 5G kit to NTT DoCoMo. Last...
Etisalat signs memorandum of understanding to use Rakuten Communications Platform for cloud-native, Open RAN networks
Last week Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) tapped Airspan as a 4G and 5G hardware/software vendor, and this week RCP announced it's working with Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat to develop a "reference...
Shortly after LTE reached maturity, service providers started facing new challenges to meet customer demand for high capacity and “always-on” connectivity with quick set-up and transition time, spurred by diverse new applications and extremely high data usage by subscribers. To address some of these...
SONIC program launches with eight Open RAN vendors and integration specialists
Open RAN is gaining traction in the U.K. with Vodafone trialing out disaggregated radio stacks in rural parts of its network and now, a government-back program is gearing up to focus on testing hardware/software...
Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm Technologies announced a collaboration for accelerating 5G development in India.
Recently, Airtel became India’s first telco to demonstrate 5G over a live commercial network in the city of Hyderabad.
Through Airtel’s network vendors and device partners, Airtel will utilize...
An Open RAN conversation with Eng Wei Koo, Director of Technology, 5G Solutions, Keysight Technologies
With greenfield builds in Japan and the U.S., and a major commitment from European operators, Open RAN is poised to have a meaningful impact on the way networks are bought...
2020 was the year Open RAN became mainstream. As more operators started to trial and deploy the technology across the globe and as more radio, server, and software vendors joined the ecosystem, it became apparent that disaggregation of previously tightly coupled radio, hardware, and...
Finnish vendor Nokia announced a partnership with Brazil’s Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD), which is an independent government-affiliated research body, to jointly develop applications and solutions based on the Open RAN-compliant near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC).
In a release, Nokia said that the partnership...
