USAID’s Better Access and Connectivity (BEACON) project has soft-launched the first Open RAN laboratory in the Philippines, in collaboration with international and local telco industry stakeholders, and is targeting a full launch in May this year.
Ericsson says it has signed a strategic IT transformation deal with Bangladesh telco Grameenphone to upgrade its backend with what the vendor says is one of the largest catalog-driven charging and mediation deployments in the world, with added AI.
It marks the first aggressive move to market to European destinations since the airline pulled out of flying to the hub airports of Hong Kong in 2020 and Abu Dhabi in 2017, before entering administration in 2020.
Operator Orange Jordan and independent software provider SoftAtHome say they have announced the imminent deployment of the world’s first fully prpl-based broadband solution with a home gateway and Wi-Fi repeater powered by prplWare and complementary So…