Etisalat and Parallel Wireless partner for O-RAN in Afghanistan
191 Etisalat has collaborated with Parallel Wireless, Intel and Supermicro to deliver Central Asia’s first cloud-native O-RAN compliant 5G 4G 3G 2G Open RAN solutions in Afghanistan. Mobile broadband penetration in Afghanistan has seen significant growth over the past years, hitting 22% in 2013 from 1% in 2013. While mobile broadband is still in its early stages of development, growth is expected in 2022. However, with margins tight, operators in Central Asia need new strategies to cut CAPEX and OPEX. Hardware-defined 2G, 3G and 4G networks are both expensive to deploy and operate, and run ...