VP Philippe Poggianti pointed to a significant uptick in spectrum allocation and deployments globally as evidence of its growing presence.

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TIM, Telefónica, and Vodafone said they’re particularly interested in energy efficiency gains from open RAN.

“Why should I as a company outsource my vital infrastructure to a company which has outsourced its vital infrastructure?" consultant John Strand said.

Private networks require specialized industry-specific expertise and present opportunities for all types of players.

Market dynamics and ecosystem development are all that stands in the way of cloud-native 5G infrastructure momentum, Google Cloud's Amol Phadke said.

Most damning of all, Ericsson can’t unequivocally deny that bribes paid by some employees during that period ended up in the hands of the Islamic State.

“Just because there's a rising tide, it doesn't mean it lifts all boats," Signals Research Group's Mike Thelander said.

IT professionals are reassessing priorities, and the job market hasn’t been this hot, enriching, or lucrative for jobseekers in a very long time.

This latest admission extends a decades-long problem for the company and puts its corrupt behavior on the record in more countries.

China Mobile, a state-owned operator, leads or co-chairs seven of the 10 O-RAN Alliance working groups, according to Strand Consult CEO John Strand.

"The only acceptable goal going forward is to then start gaining market share, and I think we have every possibility to do that,” CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

Vodafone’s new facility in Malaga, Spain, will be staffed with 50 open RAN specialists, joining 650 software engineers, architects, and technicians.

It may sound hyperbolic, but open RAN could be the most divisive technology to confront the wireless industry in many years, perhaps decades.

“The North Star here is within a decade that we will be 100% on public cloud,” Wells Fargo's head of hybrid environments Christopher Marsh-Bourdon said.

The world’s first mobile 5G networks were deployed two years ago and everyone in the industry is still searching, waiting for 5G to deliver on its promise. It might

Facebook is emboldened and seemingly committed as ever to tear proprietary legacy models down to its benefit and many others.

“There is no magic that an Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft could enable because the underlying software architecture is absolutely flawed. It needs to evolve," Rakuten Mobile CTO

The service will be live in Toronto by the end of this year, followed by Montreal in the first quarter of 2022, and Vancouver in spring 2022, Bell Canada

“Open RAN is nothing but bringing the RAN in with open interfaces. At the end, that’s all it is,” Mavenir CEO Pardeep Kohli said.

Oracle has positioned its portfolio on “providing the brains of the 5G standalone architecture core network, specifically the major intelligent components that form the control plane,” the company's Andrew

Valuable outcomes are derived from multi-cloud, however it remains to be seen if wireless carriers will successfully blend these strengths in a cross-cloud fashion or operate them in effective

There is no silver bullet for security in any context, and that applies to open RAN and cloud native technologies all the same.

ONAP Honolulu introduces more cloud native functionality, early support for end-to-end 5G network slicing, and deeper integration with open RAN standards.

Nokia's first 5G RAN products didn't support Massive MIMO 5G layer 1 and eCPRI, Nokia's Tommi Uitto said.