REASON

Realising Enabling Architectures and Solutions for Open Networks (REASON) brings together an ecosystem representing the entire telecommunications R&D.

CoMP-O-RAN

The Coordinated Multipoint Open Radio Access Network (CoMP-O-RAN) project is revolutionising the performance and cost of densified 5G New Radio outdoor small cell clusters

Best of British RAN Development

The Best of British RAN Development project (BoB) is demonstrating a commercial and technically viable Radio Access Network architecture designed, developed and manufactured in the UK

University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab welcomes £6m boost for the communications technologies of tomorrow

Future communication systems including 6G, faster internet access and cloud computing have received £6m investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – part of UK Research and Innovation.

Europe’s Open RAN Five wants ecosystem to pick up the pace

Written by Keith Dyer.

But admits they won't be making their own major deployment investments until after 2025.

Europe’s big 5 operators have updated on the progress of their Open RAN MoU, with the release of a further white paper. They call for vendors, specification and standards bodies to pick up the pace, but admit that they themselves will not be in a position to make major investments in large scale deployments until after 2025.

2G and 3G Shutdowns Continue

Written by Pete Bell.
 

Mobile network operators around the world continue to close legacy 2G and 3G networks in order to migrate valuable spectrum resources to more widely used 4G and 5G technologies.

Following up on our August 2021 piece covering 3G sunsets in Europe, today we have a look at how the situation has developed since then and which markets will be next to wave goodbye to 2G and 3G.

2G Decline

South Korea aims to launch first commercial 6G networks in 2028

Written by Juan Pedro Tomás.

South Korea announced the K-Network 2030 strategy with the aim of boosting private-public cooperation to develop future 6G technologies.

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT plans to commercialize an initial 6G network service in 2028, two years earlier than its initial schedule, Korean newspaper Aju Business Daily reported.

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