Government

Last year saw the governments of the UK and the Republic of Korea (RoK) announce a joint-funded £3.6m competition to collaborate on a “world-first” R&D project to accelerate the development of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) technology.

Announced in 2022, the Future Open Networks Research Challenge (FONRC) is a £25 million initiative designed to enable universities, large RAN vendors, and other telecoms organisations to conduct collaborative research and development to drive the openness and interoperability of future network architectures.