It’s time to fully involve Open RAN community in 3GPP
Open RAN is not a technology. It is an architecture characterized by open and interoperable interfaces between all the elements of the network.
Open RAN is not a technology. It is an architecture characterized by open and interoperable interfaces between all the elements of the network.
Mobile chip giant Qualcomm is enlisting the help of OpenRAN cheerleader Vodafone to help it bring its smartphone methodology to the new radio paradigm.
Telecoms group TIM claims to be the first Italian operator to formally get the ball rolling on its OpenRAN deployment.
Iain and Scott retreat from springtime London to bring you another dose of telecoms chit-chat. They start with the latest on the hot topic of OpenRAN, including Dish going all-in with AWS. Quarterlies season is in full flow, so they move on to look at Ericsson’s before concluding with a review of the latest thinking around the regulation of artificial intelligence.
Mavenir is making headlines, announcing a new OpenRAN development centre in the UK, scoring a $500 million investment from Koch Industries and even getting a new logo.
Nascent US MNO Dish is the latest telecoms company to go all-in on the public cloud, entrusting Amazon Web Services to handle its entire 5G network.
UK telco Vodafone has been banging on about OpenRAN for a while and is its biggest domestic cheerleader, so it’s good to see it lead from the front by investing in its development.
The boys are back in town as they record the first pod from the studio this year. They celebrate by discussing the UK telecoms diversity taskforce, which has called for more diversity. Some things never change and they follow that with the inevitable Huawei segment before concluding with a look at the UK merger between Virgin Media and O2, which has just been approved.
The Japanese telecoms vendor NEC has brought its partnership with IBM-owned open source software solutions provider Red Hat up to date to deliver multicloud capable 5G solutions.
The OpenRAN movement continues its steady progress with the launch of a compatible set of massive MIMO kit from two companies keen to disrupt the networking space.
A task force commissioned by the UK government to look into telecoms vendor diversity has shocked everyone by concluding we need some.
On what could possibly be the last ever remote pod, Ian and Scott start by mulling whether the partial restoration of our civil liberties will be enough to rescue the Mobile World Congress event. They move on to look at the viability of Open RAN, especially from a Huawei perspective, and conclude with a review of some recent developments in the regulation of Big Tech.
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has unveiled an Open Lab, which is designed as a hub for collaboration on virtualized 5G RAN technologies.
Japanese operator NTT Docomo is determined not to let rival Rakuten get too much of a head start with OpenRAN, so has drafted in Samsung to help.
UAE operator group Etisalat is the latest telco to use Rakuten’s platform to accelerate its adoption of OpenRAN technology.
The news that US telecoms giant AT&T will use Nokia for a major part of its 5G rollout comes as the Finnish vendor tries to give investors hope.
The Japanese digital heavyweight Rakuten has sold 13% share, worth $2.2 billion to new investors to bolster its balance sheet and to finance more aggressive mobile rollout.
Regardless of their RAN vendor, all of Orange’s global markets will be optimizing their networks with Nokia tech.
Finnish kit vendor Nokia has unveiled a new service enablement platform that’s designed to enable innovation across the OpenRAN ecosystem.
The sense of déjà vu is growing as, once more, Ericsson’s decision to pull out of Mobile World Congress seems to have encouraged others to do the same.
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22 June 2021 @ 14:19:04 UTC
Capgemini tempers expectations for industrial 5G deployment https://t.co/XgfjKpRRwx #5G #IoT
22 June 2021 @ 14:19:03 UTC
Ericsson needs Intel inside to support mid-band 5G in its cloud RAN https://t.co/23m3iQSfJf #5G #Components
22 June 2021 @ 11:58:33 UTC
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