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DISH awarded $50 million NTIA grant for Open RAN testing
News The grant is the largest award under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund to date DISH Wireless, the wireless network service provider recently reunited with parent company EchoStar,...
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Three deploys UK’s first open ran small cell in Glasgow, but says UK Govt...
News Three UK is seeking to tackle urban network congestion in Glasgow by deploying over 50 small cells throughout the city The project, which will take 15 months to implement, will see 51 small...
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Vodafone shows off ‘pick and mix’ nature of Open RAN with NEC
News The operator has upgraded one of its existing Open RAN masts in Devon with NEC equipment, demonstrating the benefits of interchangeable RAN components Today, Vodafone has announced the deployment...
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Kyivstar looks to Rakuten’s Open RAN tech to rebuild its network
News A letter of intent from Kyivstar suggests that Open RAN could play a significant role in replacing the country’s damaged digital infrastructure This week, Ukrainian operator Kyivstar has signed a...
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AT&T Network CTO talks Open RAN and the move towards continuous innovation
Interview At Connected America 2024, we spoke with Yigal Elbaz, SVP and Network CTO at AT&T (pictured, left) about the future of Open RAN and what it means for the operator At the end of last year,...
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“AI is this great undiscovered country”: Mavenir talks 5G’s AI-enabled future...
Interview At Connected North this year, we caught up with David Hall, VP of Technology Solutions (EMEA) at Mavenir, to discuss the North’s 5G landscape and why AI-enabled operations is quietly becoming...
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Samsung and Telefonica partner for German vRAN site
News After initial lab trials beginning in October, the site is now being opened commercially This week, Samsung and O2 Telefonica have announced the launch of their first German virtualised RAN...
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Nokia and Vodafone trial Open RAN with Arm and HPE
Press Release Nokia and Vodafone have announced the successful completion of a trial, leveraging Nokia’s anyRAN approach in collaboration with partners Arm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The...
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1&1: 700,000 customers already using our Open RAN network
News The German mobile operator says it had built 1,334 Open RAN sites by the end of Q1 Alongside the company’s Q1 financial results this week, Germany’s newest mobile operator, 1&1, has revealed...
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House votes to modernize NTIA for first time in over 30 years
News US House of Representatives passed bipartisan bill to reauthorize NTIA and modernize its role On Wednesday 15 May, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation to reauthorize...
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VIAVI partners with Telecom Infra Project for Open RAN testing
News Article by Bradford Randall, originally published on Total Telecom’ sister site, Broadband Communities Viavi Solutions Inc., also known as VIAVI, has announced a strategic partnership with the...
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Deutsche Telekom CTO Abdurazak Mudesir takes over as chair of O-RAN Alliance
Press Release O-RAN ALLIANCE announces that Dr. Abdurazak Mudesir, Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom, was elected as Chair of the Board, effective on June 25, 2024. Under Abdu’s chairmanship, O-RAN...
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FCC approves $9bn in subsidies for rural 5G expansion
News According to the FCC’s most recent data, over 14 million households and businesses in the US lack 5G access The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved new rules to provide $9...
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VanillaPlus Issue 4: Nokia’s Vishal Singh explains how CSPs will Sense,...
Partner Content A bleak dystopian future of automated, autonomous machines has been trailed by sci-fi authors for the last couple of centuries but now autonomy is here, it doesn’t seem such a bad...
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Aramco Digital mulls $1bn stake in Mavenir
News The companies are also reportedly discussing the possibility of forming a $200 million joint venture Anonymous sources speaking to Reuters suggest that the digital arm of Saudi Arabia oil company...
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Deutsche Telekom replaces Huawei kit in new Nokia deal
News The deal covers over 3,000 Open RAN sites across Germany Nokia has announced a deal with Deutsche Telekom to support the deployment of over 3,000 sites for its Open RAN network in Germany. The...
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