Open RAN

With less than three weeks to go until the ONE competition closes, here’s a reminder of the key dates for your diary. Plus, keep reading to hear how DSIT has acted on your feedback and reduced grant funding processes.

In London on the 27th of April, the UK Telecoms Innovation Network officially launched to a packed room.

Written by Mike Robuck for MobileWorldLive.com

Start-up Paradise Mobile pledged to bolster connectivity and associated services on Bermuda and the surrounding archipelago after tapping Mavenir to deliver a fully cloud-native network spanning 4G and 5G technologies

With the goal to foster OpenRAN orchestration and management automation (ROMA) product & solution maturity, a functional testbed, consisting of Foxconn’s RU, Capgemini’s CU/DU, and 5GC (both running on Dell servers), has been set up in the TIP Community Lab in Meta’s Menlo Park Campus.

Written by Mike Dano for LightReading.com

The US government is plowing $1.5 billion into the open RAN industry in the hopes of cultivating domestic suppliers for 5G. But it's not exactly clear how that money will be spent.

Written by Ray Le Maistre of TelecomTV

Vodafone has put Juniper’s RAN intelligent controller (RIC) through its paces