US telecoms giant AT&T claims to have completed a milestone, with the first ever Open RAN (radio access network) call using third party radios for data transmission.
Two Rakuten Group subsidiaries, Rakuten Mobile and services provider Rakuten Symphony, have deployed an in-house developed RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) platform in Rakuten’s 4G and 5G Open RAN mobile network in Japan.
British mobile operator Three UK has completed the first stage of a trial held in Glasgow, which it claims is the UK’s first deployment of Open RAN technology in a dense urban environment.
Test and monitoring solutions provider Viavi Solutions has expanded its automated Lab-as-a-Service for Open RAN testing facility VALOR Lab with an RF-shielded anechoic chamber and two additional customer labs.
Telkom Kenya has partnered with Japan-based technology services provider Rakuten Symphony and US-based Open RAN developer Airspan Networks, to develop and test Open RAN technology in the East African nation.
Open RAN solutions provider OREX SAI has signed an MoU with Singapore telco StarHub to jointly deploy commercial Open RAN solutions for StarHub’s Cloud Infinity and 4G/5G macro network.
Australia's largest telecoms provider Telstra has partnered with equipment vendor Ericsson on a four year project to build what they claim will be the first programmable network in the Asia Pacific region.
Japanese communications devices maker Kyocera has announced that together with six other telecommunications hardware manufacturers will establish the "O-RU Alliance" in March 2025.
Philippines telco PLDT and its wireless arm Smart, in collaboration with telco industry players and academia, has unveiled the first Open RAN laboratory in the South East Asian nation of islands.
Telecommunications equipment vendor Nokia has won a deal with German telco Deutsche Telekom (DT) which will see it replace Chinese vendor Huawei at more than 3,000 sites to support the operator’s multi-vendor Open RAN network scale-up in Germany.
Korean standards certification group the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) and interoperability standards organisation O-RAN Alliance have signed a cooperation agreement that enables the adoption of O-RAN Alliance specifications to TTA standards.
Korean electronics giant Samsung has been selected by Japanese telecoms operator KDDI to provide 4G and 5G O-RAN compliant virtualised Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for its Open RAN deployment in Japan.
The broader Open RAN movement has come a long way in just a few years, but the results have been mixed, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.
Vodafone Romania has picked Samsung Electronics to deploy its fully virtualised RAN software (vRAN) and radio solutions to roll out Open RAN in Romania.
Network connectivity provider CommScope introduced three Open RAN (Radio Access Network) advances to its network portfolio, which it said facilitated “open, sustainable, and converged 5G indoor networks.”
EchoStar subsidiary Dish Wireless has bagged a US$50 million grant from the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which will be used to fund and establish the Open RAN Centre for Integration & Deployment (Orcid).
Market research firm Dell’Oro Group has lowered its forecast for the telecom server market relative to its October 2022 report citing factors including economic headwinds leading to reduced spending on mobile network infrastructure and challenges with the adoption of Open RAN and MEC.
Samsung Electronics and O2 Telefónica jointly trialled advanced cloud-native vRAN and Open RAN technologies in several lab and field tests in Germany.
Samsung and telco companies Vodafone and Orange have completed the first 4G calls over shared commercial networks in rural Romania trialed on Open RAN.
Samsung is supplying virtualised and open RAN network equipment to power Vodafone's 2,500 mobile sites in Wales and South Wales in England by 2027.
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