AT&T has announced its intention to deploy a commercial-scale Open Radio Access Network in the USA, thanks to a five-year contract with Ericsson, during which its expenditure could approach $14.
Nokia in a statement Tuesday said that it is aware of AT&T’s Open RAN plans, and expects its revenue from AT&T to decrease over the next two to three years.
Nokia announced on Monday that Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo is to deploy its Open Radio Access Network equipment.The Finnish group specifies that the deployment of its 5G AirScale technology.
“Our new and enhanced RAN Compute portfolio was designed with Ericsson’s customers and their future needs in mind. It both addresses their need to maximize spectrum utilization and facilitates their desire to future-proof their networks with support for Open RAN architectures,” said Michael Begley, Head of RAN Compute, Ericsson.
Viavi Solutions: “There are a lot of homegrown Indian companies, like Tejas Networks and Tata, Saankhya Labs, and VVDN…a lot of companies who are now, because of 5G, developing this technology,” he said. “We have been involved in helping them to develop the technology by way of testing.”