In March of 2021, Tareq Amin, then CTO of Rakuten Mobile and now CEO of Aramco Digital, and I contemplated the question of how Rakuten Mobile could ramp itself onto a "brownfield" operator's modernization roadmap and drive Open RAN adoption. Of course, this would...
Sarat Puthenpura, Chief Architect – Open RAN; Aether (previously ONF) will be speaking at this year's Open RAN Global Forum. Read more and register here.
Energy costs for telecom operators can be as high as 10% of their total operating expenditure. This is especially true...
In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Tay Yeow Lian, managing director of networks at Singtel Singapore, noted that the telco currently offers nationwide 5G SA services with a network of more than 1,500 5G mobile base stations
Singaporean telco Singtel plans to explore...
Open RAN has long been described as a journey, with the first steps focused purely on disaggregating hardware and software, then reaggregating it into a function radio system.
Now the focus is shifting to more robust implementations that go beyond disaggregation and get into open,...
Europe is forecast to account for 15-20 percent of the global O-RAN revenues by 2028, according to the report
North America is expected to lead the Open RAN (O-RAN) market during the 2023-2028 period, according to a recent report by Dell’Oro Group.
Dell’Oro highlighted that North...
SONIC Labs is delivered by Digital Catapult and supported by U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom
Digital Catapult has launched its first SONIC Labs Technology Access Program, in which it is collaborating with a number of organizations to address energy efficiency challenges in Open RAN (O-RAN) operations.
Digital...
ATIS explained that the MoU establishes a joint process to identify O-RAN specifications for adoption by ATIS
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and the O-RAN Alliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that enables the transposition of O-RAN Alliance specifications to ATIS...
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone detail Open RAN interests—SMO, RIC, RAN hardware acceleration are focus areas
As Open RAN has becomes mainstream, the industry focus has shifted from supplying greenfield network builds to integrating new, open radio systems into brownfield networks. For Open...
In May, Dell and Ericsson announced a partnership for tailored network cloud infrastructure support for CSPs
During the DTW Ignite conference in Copenhagen, Dell Technologies and Ericsson highlighted the importance of a strategic partnership the pair announced in May, which will support communications service providers...
EchoStar said that the new O-RAN facility is housed at the company's data center in Cheyenne
EchoStar Corporation announced the launch of the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID), a state-of-the-art Open RAN (O-RAN) testing and evaluation lab.
The company said that the new...
In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Indosat's President and CEO, Vikram Sinha said that the telco has alread launched 5G services in eight cities across Indonesia, including Jakarta, Makassar, and Bali
Indonesian telco Indosat has the main priority of strengthening its 4G network to...
Viavi's Automated Lab-as-a-service for Open RAN (VALOR) solution gets official TIP authorization
Viavi Solutions' Lab-as-a-service for Open RAN, otherwise known as VALOR, is getting expanded test capabilities through a new collaboration with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP).
VALOR has been established as the first authorized test...
The update is the result of the work carried out by the European carriers under the a previously signed Open RAN MoU
European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone Group have released an update on the technical priorities of Open RAN, the telcos...
Vodafone said that this agreement aims to expand the Advanced Immersive and Holographic 5G Laboratory of the UPV in Valencia
Spanish carrier Vodafone Spain announced a collaboration project with the Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications Institute (iTEAM) at the UPV University in Valencia, Spain, to focus...
Open RAN has long been described as a journey, with the first steps focused purely on disaggregating hardware and software, then reaggregating it into a function radio system.
Now the focus is shifting to more robust implementations that go beyond disaggregation and get into open,...
Rohde & Schwarz and VIAVI offer joint test solutions to meet the needs of radio equipment manufacturers who apply for the NTIA Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund.
Rohde & Schwarz and Viavi Solutions have announced an expansion of their partnership delivering state-of-the-art O-RU testing...
Vodafone partnered with tech research center i2CAT Foundation for this development
Vodafone and tech research center i2CAT Foundation announced that they will take advantage of the improved automation offered by Open-RAN to jointly build a multi-vendor management system to fix faults and respond to cyber...
Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed a seismic shift in the landscape of mobile networks: we've moved away from the days of bulky, dedicated hardware that dominated the scene and in its place, a new era of virtualization has blossomed. Traditional mobile networks relied...
With major carriers now embracing Open RAN, the conversation on the potentially game-changing network construct and its ability to transform the telecommunications industry in the U.S. has shifted significantly over the last year.
First, in December, AT&T announced plans to spend $14 billion over the...
Orange said that Samsung provided its specialized vRAN software for the trial, which supports multi-RAT - 2G, 4G and 5G and O-RAN compatible radio equipment
Orange and Vodafone have expanded a shared Open RAN (O-RAN) 4G network pilot project in some rural areas of Romania,...
EchoStar said that the estimated value of the program with all yearly options is up to $2.7 billion over 10 years
EchoStar announced it has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract as part of the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Spiral 4 wireless...
Commercial momentum for Open and Virtualized RAN is on the rise, demonstrating ecosystem readiness to move Open vRAN forward with deployments at scale. In parallel, AI is finding its way everywhere – in the cloud, edge and on-device, illuminating opportunities for improved performance, efficiency...
NTT Docomo said it will launch the new subsidiary in July this year
Japanese telco NTT Docomo announced plans to create a new subsidiary, dubbed NTT Docomo Global, with the aim of expanding the telco's global presence. In a release, the Japanese operator said that...
Rakuten Mobile aims to reach 8-10 million mobile subscribers by the end of 2024
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, which is part of e-commerce giant Rakuten Group, has reached over 6.8 million subscribers as of the end of March, the carrier said in a release.
The operator...
The rise of Open RAN, where multi-vendor radio systems comprising centralized, distributed and radio units are made interoperable, is now decidedly mainstream. Following early commercial deployments from greenfield operators, Open RAN is scaling out in brownfield networks. In addition to the pre-deployment interoperability work,...
