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- Samsung will play a key role for Vodafone’s Open RAN deployments in multiple European markets, something the operator had previously confirmed
- The vendor says it will supply a range of RAN and network management software solutions and Open RAN-compliant radios
- But there’s still no sense of the scale of the deployments as Vodafone is yet to share its ‘Spring 6’ plan
Samsung, perhaps concerned that its reputation as a credible radio access network (RAN) equipment supplier had been dented by recent developments, has published a blog that highlights its role in Vodafone Group’s planned rollout of Open RAN technology across Europe.
The irony, of course, is that Samsung’s RAN sector standing took a bit of a blow in September because UK operator VodafoneThree, which is majority-owned by Vodafone Group, decided, after years of trials and initial Open RAN deployments with the South Korean vendor, to undertake its national cellular network update with Ericsson and Nokia and leave Samsung out in the cold – see Samsung squeezed out of VodafoneThree’s £2bn UK network refresh.
