O-RAN
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Vietnamese carrier Viettel has launched an Open RAN 5G Network, leveraging hardware from Qualcomm to provide enhanced connectivity across the country. -
Fujitsu has unveiled an AI-powered tool designed to enhance mobile communications by reducing quality degradation in 5G wireless networks.
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Vodafone confirms plans to build new Open Radio Access Network (RAN) sites in 20 cities across Romania.
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Orange and Vodafone are looking for strategic vendors for a pioneering open RAN collaboration in Romania.
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The island of Bermuda is to get a new mobile competitor, that will be fully cloud-based.
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Japanese equipment vendor NEC is taking its US-based acquisition, Blue Danube Systems, and turning it into an innovation hub for open RAN.
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Japanese group Rakuten is transforming itself into a vendor as well as an operator with an agreed bid for Altiostar, valuing the vendor at US$1 billion.
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Network integrator STL, has partnered Facebook Connectivity to design and develop 4G and 5G radio products.
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Open RAN and small cell specialist Mavenir has added to the responsibilities of its chief strategy officer, Bejoy Pankajakshan, by making him chief technology and strategy officer.
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Five Middle East mobile operators have announced they are working together to push forward their work towards open RAN technology in their networks.
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Vodafone and Mavenir said today they are working on a small cell solution based on open RAN technology, to provide indoor 4G connectivity for business customers.
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Orange has announced what it calls “the network of the future”, an experimental cloud-based network that it hopes will eventually provide “ambient connectivity”.
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Deutsche Telekom has switched on its first open RAN service, in the north German town of Neubrandenburg.
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Mavenir has jumped in ahead of next week’s mainly virtual Mobile World Congress to announce a 4G and 5G partnership with chipmaker Qualcomm.
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Nokia got it wrong with its first attempt to develop 5G equipment, but now thinks it’s turned itself around, the company has admitted.
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MTN has picked two Indian companies and three US companies for its move to open RAN technology, which it plans to start this year.
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Nokia has moved into the open RAN era by opening its first collaboration and testing centre, open to competing vendors.
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The top four vendors in the emerging open RAN market are Parallel Wireless, Altiostar, Intel and Mavenir, according to a new report.
