But still some way to go before standards-based tech can match mainstream products
Matthew Hughes Tue 9 Mar 2021 // 10:15 UTC Share
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Last year Vodafone bet big on OpenRAN, announcing it would shift a huge portion of its tower estate to the standards-based tech. Now Andrea Donà, the telco s director of network and development, has shed some light on how this will work.
Speaking to Telecom TV, Donà said Vodafone had already deployed two OpenRAN sites to its production network, situated in the southwest of England. These deployments are part of its testing process, which Donà said would conclude in May.
The wide-scale macro rollout, which will replace roughly 2,600 4G masts with OpenRAN alternatives, is expected to commence later this year, winding up in 2027 in time to meet the UK government s edict to excise high-risk vendors from the telecommunications networks.