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The US government has awarded just over US$117 million in funding for the development of commercially viable Open RAN hardware.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the funding award, which comes under the second phase of its Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund. As its name suggests, the scheme is geared towards financing the development of the Open RAN ecosystem.
Nine companies secured grants under this latest funding round, with Airspan Networks, a well-known name in the Open RAN space, picking up the biggest slice of the available cash; it will get $42.7 million for a project to build a power-efficient 4G/5G O-RU extensible platform.
