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Vodafone to open O-RAN test and integration lab Vodafone is to open an O-RAN test and integration lab at its Newbury HQ. Initially it will employ 30 engineers. Vodafone has taken a lead in O-RAN with trials in several European countries and establishing the UK’s first O-RAN site in Wales. The Test and Integration Lab will work with vendors to ensure their products comply with Vodafone and the industry’s O-RAN specs. Work will begin at the innovation and development stages, through to commer...

By Paul Sandle on Apr 21, 2021 8:13AM After ban on Huawei. A British taskforce has called for targets for the amount of telecoms kit to be sourced from new vendors or through open architecture to boost the range of 5G suppliers after Britains ban on Huawei. The Telecom Diversification Taskforce also said that a timetable to wind down 2G and 3G networks needed to be drawn up and the development of Open RAN architecture supported. These measures are desig...