Japan Pushes the O-RAN Alliance - Akihabara News
Japan Pushes the O-RAN Alliance Akihabara News (Tokyo) — With the addition of Rakuten Mobile in early November, all four of Japan’s mobile operators (Docomo, KDDI, SoftBank, and Rakuten) have joined the O-RAN Alliance, a worldwide community promoting open and fully interoperable radio access networks (RAN). NTT Docomo was one of the founding members in February 2018, and the others joined not long afterward. In basic terms, RAN are an essential part of any mobile network which communicates via radio frequencies between a core network and devices such as mobile phones and computers. Open R...