Subsidized open RAN heads to rural Nigeria
Hotspot Network, a network-as-a-service provider, has signed a commercial agreement with MTN's operations in Nigeria to roll out open RAN to 2,000 villages. Morenikeji Aniye, CEO of Hotspot Network, said the aim was to establish 500 open RAN sites in "year one." Parallel Wireless, which has been scooping up a fair amount of open RAN contracts of late, is part of the supplier mix. The US software company can support all of the cellular generations in an open RAN environment, and is primarily supporting 2G and 3G in Nigeria, along with some 4G, over the 900MHz frequency band. Hotspot Network...