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,...
1&1 said that around 700,000 customers were already using its O-RAN network as of the end of March
German operator 1&1, which is owned by United Internet AG, had constructed a total of 1,334 antenna sites by the end of the first quarter of the...
During the O-RAN demo, Nokia said that the data calls were successfully conducted using commercial user devices
Nokia and Vodafone announced the successful completion of an Open RAN (O-RAN) trial in collaboration with partners Arm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
The Finnish vendor said that the...
LitePoint focused on testing Open RAN MIMO radio units as a whole rather than antenna-by-antenna
As operators look to maximize spectrum utilization and deliver strong quality of experience to users, multi-antenna MIMO radio units have become mainstays in global radio access networks (RANs). LitePoint has...
O2 Telefonica and Samsung will add seven vRAN and O-RAN network sites in the Bavaria region
Samsung Electronics and German carrier O2 Telefónica announced that launch of their first virtualized RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN (O-RAN) commercial site in Germany following extensive trials.
The partners said...
Vodafone said the O-RAN trial took place in two towns in Northern Italy
Vodafone and Nokia announced they have completed a three-month Open RAN (O-RAN) trial across a live 5G Standalone (5G SA) test network in Italy, Vodafone said in a release.
Vodafone said that the...
The telecoms industry is currently faced with the challenge of extending and improving connectivity and simultaneously reducing carbon emissions. The move to open and disaggregated networks is gaining momentum in the telecommunications and networking industry for the potential to improve connectivity, with much of...
Analysys Mason surveyed over 60 operators worldwide and found a significant positive shift in confidence and focus regarding Open RAN capabilities. Many of the issues related to performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) uncertainty, previously the biggest barriers to Open RAN adoption, are being...
A group of firms will use SONIC Labs’ outdoor testing site in London to explore the potential of O-RAN in a real-world environment
U.K. digital accelerator Digital Catapult has announced that SONIC Labs, an initiative aiming to advance Open RAN (O-RAN) technology, will welcome a...
The evolution of radio access networks (RANs) from closed-ecosystem, single-vendor approaches to highly interoperable sets of open standardsbased solutions continues to drive down implementation cost and complexity.
Software-defined virtualized RANs, consisting of disaggregated subsystems and elements, enable a greater level of choice as communication service...
Viavi is the first test equipment provide to join OSA's board
Viavi Solutions announced it has joined the strategic board of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA).
With this new addition, the OSA will now have a test equipment provider on its board.
The OpenAirInterface (OAI), known for...
There’s a disconnect between network infrastructure miniaturization and air-cooling techniques; liquid cooling is key to delivering vRAN for public and private networks
Operators globally are undertaking major radio access network (RAN) modernization projects with an emphasis on new distributed and open architectures and RAN virtualization...
On the push to industrializing Open RAN, Ericsson focused on cloudification, automation and open interfaces
Operators around the world are investing in RAN modernization and, along with it, architectural shifts to open interfaces and cloud-based platforms that enable more robust automation tooling. With a leading...
The latest Dell Technologies PowerEdge XR8000 telco-grade servers feature the Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors with optional vRAN Boost
With RAN modernization in the U.S. ongoing, and significant investment ramping in Europe and other markets, operators are increasingly focused on virtualization of radio access...
As operators move on net-zero goals, the distribution of compute out of data centers could enable new use cases, new business models and new sustainability benefits
Mobile network architectures have been changing as operators look to gain deployment flexibility and vendor choice with radio access...
Vodafone Spain said the hub will have 1,000 employees at the end of 2024
Spanish telco Vodafone announced plans to locate what it claims to be Spain's largest laboratory for Open RAN (O-RAN) networks in its technology center in Malaga.
The telco noted that this plan...
DISH Wireless EVP Eben Albertyn on lessons learned from building and operating a cloud native 5G Standalone Open RAN network
After more than a decade of strategic spectrum acquisition, and given the regulatory go-ahead related to the T-Mobile US acquisition of Sprint, DISH Wireless has...
This week's RIC Forum event in Dallas, Texas, is a showcase of the state of the Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller and its associated applications, including live-streamed demonstrations from the field of dynamic network changes triggered by RIC apps on actual sites.
The event...
An interview with Ganesh Shenbagaraman, Head of Standards and Ecosystems at Radisys Corporation
The telecom industry is currently seeing good momentum for Open RAN adoption and deployment. Recently, RCR Wireless News caught up with Ganesh Shenbagaraman, Head of Standards and Ecosystems at Radisys, to talk...
According to the FCC's new broadband coverage map, more than 14 million homes and businesses lack mobile 5G coverage
This week, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel urged the agency to “relaunch” the 5G Fund for Rural America, which earmarked up to $9 billion for...
AI-driven network operations will reduce opex, streamline performance monitoring and increase operator agility
Fujitsu expects to see an acceleration in the pace of Open RAN (O-RAN) deployments this year and a consolidation in terms of commercial deployments in 2025, according to Patrick Eriksson, vice president...
Mavenir has supported the cloud-native network deployments 1&1 and ENet—operators CEOs talk through innovation at the speed of cloud, and the role of strong vendor partnerships
At a panel during Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Mavenir CEO Pardeep Kohli explained that in order for service providers...
CommScope is bringing Open RAN indoors with updates to flagship DAS and small cell product
Ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, CommScope announced support for third-party Open RAN Distributed Units (O-DUs) on its flagship all-digital ERA distributed antenna system (DAS) as well as its...
Leveraging Dell Technologies hardware, software and supply chain, DISH faced a “race against the clock.” And delivered
After nearly two decades of strategic spectrum acquisition followed by extensive partner ecosystem development effort, DISH Wireless began building a first-of-its-kind 5G Standalone network using Open RAN and...
