Airspan Networks plans to go public in the third quarter of this year via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company and use $166 million
My grandfather gave me a Swiss Army Knife when I was 10 years old. (Of course, the first thing that I did was to test
SONIC program launches with eight Open RAN vendors and integration specialists Open RAN is gaining traction in the U.K. with Vodafone trialing out disaggregated radio stacks
The Federal Communications Commission is considering opening up a “formal conversation” on how it can support development and deployment of Open Radio Access Network technology.
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Categories 5G, 5G FWA, APAC, Bharti Airtel, Business, Carriers, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Network Infrastructure, O-RAN, Open-RAN, Qualcomm
Bharti Airtel, Qualcomm partner to foster O-RAN 5G networks in India
Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm Technologies announced a collaboration for accelerating 5G development in India. Recently, Airtel became India’s first telco to demonstrate 5G
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2020 was the year Open RAN became mainstream. As more operators started to trial and deploy the technology across the globe and as more radio,
Finnish vendor Nokia announced a partnership with Brazil’s Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD), which is an independent government-affiliated research body, to jointly develop applications
Adding intelligence to the radio access network is the focal point of AI and ML adoption by telecom operators and their vendors. And given the
Xilinx and Fujitsu are coming together to support a more rapid rollout of 5G in the United States. The partnership, which will involve Xilinx incorporating
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Categories Business, Carriers, Deutsche Telekom, EMEA, Network Infrastructure, O-RAN, Open-RAN, Orange, Telefonica, TIM, Vodafone
Telecom Italia joins alliance to promote O-RAN technology
Italian operator TIM joined an initiative recently announced by European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone Group to promote Open Radio Access Network (Open
Over the new few years, Open RAN worldwide revenues are expected to grow at double-digit rates, according to Dell’Oro Group. The analyst firm forecasts in
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NTT DoCoMo aims for an 5G O-RAN ecosystem with 12 partners
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo agreed to cooperate with 12 companies to move toward a “5G Open RAN Ecosystem,” with the objective to globally accelerate open
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Categories APAC, Dell Technologies, Intel Corporation, NEC, Network Infrastructure, NTT DoCoMo, O-RAN, O-RAN Alliance, Open-RAN, Rakuten Mobile
NTT DoCoMo aims for an 5G O-RAN ecosystem with 12 partners
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo agreed to cooperate with 12 companies to move toward a “5G Open RAN Ecosystem,” with the objective to globally accelerate open
According to GSMA, 4G accounted for 52% of mobile connections in 2019 and will increase to 56% by 2025; meanwhile, 5G will roughly take 20%