Open RAN

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...

In building and operationalizing its open, cloud-native 5G Standalone network, “Dell's been with us from day zero” In June 2023, DISH Wireless announced it had hit a very important goal—its 5G Standalone network, built from the ground up using Open RAN and cloud-native principles, was...

Vodafone and Intel are working alongside the Telecommunication Institute of University of Málaga on an O-RAN project U.K. telecom group Vodafone announced an extension of its cooperation with Intel on optimizing advanced algorithms for use in Open RAN (O-RAN) platforms, the former said in a...

Nokia said that the trial demonstrated an augmented reality use case for industrial applications Finnish vendor Nokia and Saudi carrier stc announced that they have successfully tested a 5G private wireless network based on cloud-native O-RAN technology. In a release, Nokia noted that the trial was...

With industry consensus around the Cat-B ULPI open fronthaul interface standard, the Open RAN ecosystem is ready to scale with massive MIMO support Open RAN is often described as a movement that reinvents the radio access network (RAN) as a platform for innovation but, at...

The first pilot of the technology for Vodafone Idea is being conducted in Jalandhar, Punjab U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) provider Mavenir expects to secure a commercial agreement from Indian telco Vodafone Idea for the deployment of the latter's 5G network by the end of the...

Solutions by stc announced an O-RAN deal with Mavenir to launch what it claims to be the first commercial O-RAN network in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian operators stc and Mobily have announced different deals for the implementation of Open RAN (O-RAN) technology in the country. In...

Kyivstar aims to use Rakuten Symphony’s O-RAN and 5G technologies to help rebuild Ukraine's digital infrastructure Japan's Rakuten Symphon and Veon Group’s subsidiary Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications operator, have announced a preliminary agreement that confirms Kyivstar’s interest in procuring and deploying Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN...

With focuses from client to edge to RAN to core, Intel is all-in on AI for 5G Mobile World Congress was big for Intel. In the larger sweep of 5G network disaggregation and automation, Intel has already built out a big partner ecosystem on its...

BARCELONA—Open radio access networks have been a major theme at this week's Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024. Not only was an O-RAN Alliance meeting held in conjunction with MWC, but a number of announcements indicate the continued development of the ecosystem. According to O-RAN Alliance,...

AWS said it has also joined NTT Docomo’s OREX initiative to promote O-RAN efforts at a global scale Japanese operator NTT Docomo has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) to commercially deploy its nationwide 5G Open Radio Access Network (RAN) in Japan. In a release, AWS said...

Ericsson claimed the deployment is the first cloud RAN project in Europe Swedish vendor Ericsson and German operator O2 Telefonica will start deploying Cloud RAN technology to support the latter’s 5G Standalone (SA) network in Offenbach, Germany in the first half of 2024. The vendor said...

AT&T says this is the 'next milestone' in its Open RAN journey AT&T says that it has commercial traffic running on Ericsson Cloud RAN sites in its 5G network. The first cloud RAN sites are located south of Dallas, Texas, the carrier added. AT&T and...

The launch follows successful tests Vodafone started with Samsung and other partners last year in Romania Vodafone said it is installing new Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) sites in 20 cities across Romania. In Romania, Vodafone said it is working with several partners, including Samsung for...

Telus said that the commercial deployment of this technology will begin in the first half of this year Canadian operator Telus and Samsung Electronics announced that they will build what they say will be Canada’s first commercial virtualized and Open RAN (O-RAN) network. The companies said...

Vodafone, Samsung and AMD completed an end-to-end data call in Samsung's research and development lab in Korea, utilizing AMD processors that supported Samsung's virtualized RAN (vRAN) software, which is O-RAN compliant. The test result exceeded 1 Gbps throughput for multiple devices on multi-cell configuration,...

As CSPs look to increase network flexibility and scalability without sacrificing efficiency in new disaggregated radio systems, Cloud RAN will play a key role With 5G networks operating at scale, communications service providers (CSPs) stand ready to embark on the next evolution of cellular. The...

"The best way to assess integration across the industry is to go big," writes AT&T's VP of RAN Technology AT&T and Verizon are heading up a federally funded, $42.3 million project focused on Open RAN interoperability, network performance and security, as well as new...

Dell'Oro said that the long-term forecast for O-RAN remains positive Open RAN (O-RAN) revenue is set to decline in 2023, following an impressive increase between 2019 and 2022, according to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group. The report highlighted that market conditions will remain challenging...

Verizon says it is laying the foundation for O-RAN Verizon says that it has already deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN-capable radios in its network as part of an ongoing modernization project in which the carrier is putting in place a virtualized Radio Access Network...