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UK gets more OpenRAN investment, Mavenir gets Koch

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.

• 22 Apr 2021

Dish gambles on Faustian pact with AWS

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.

• 22 Apr 2021

Vodafone puts its money where its mouth is with new OpenRAN lab

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.

• 21 Apr 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: vendor diversity, Huawei and Virgin/O2 merger

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.

• 19 Apr 2021

NEC teams up with Red Hat to deliver cloud native 5G solutions

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.

• 14 Apr 2021

Mavenir and Xilinx team up to make an OpenRAN mMIMO portfolio

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.

• 13 Apr 2021

UK vendor diversity task force calls for more vendor diversity

A task force commissioned by the UK government to look into telecoms vendor diversity has shocked everyone by concluding we need some.

• 13 Apr 2021

The Telecoms.com Podcast: MWC, OpenRAN and regulation

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.

• 12 Apr 2021

Ericsson tiptoes towards OpenRAN with new Open Lab

Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has unveiled an Open Lab, which is designed as a hub for collaboration on virtualized 5G RAN technologies.

• 31 Mar 2021

NTT Docomo turns to Samsung for help with OpenRAN

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.

• 22 Mar 2021

Etisalat brings in Rakuten to help with OpenRAN

UAE operator group Etisalat is the latest telco to use Rakuten’s platform to accelerate its adoption of OpenRAN technology.

• 22 Mar 2021

Nokia gets AT&T’s C-Band deployment work

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.

• 18 Mar 2021

Rakuten receives a $2 billion capital injection

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.

• 15 Mar 2021

Nokia signs global SON deal with Orange group

Regardless of their RAN vendor, all of Orange’s global markets will be optimizing their networks with Nokia tech.

• 15 Mar 2021

Nokia launches an OpenRAN platform

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has unveiled a new service enablement platform that’s designed to enable innovation across the OpenRAN ecosystem.

• 11 Mar 2021

Nokia and others join the MWC 2021 exodus

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.

• 10 Mar 2021