Indian telco Bharti Airtel has reportedly accused domestic telecoms vendor Tejas Networks of installing “sub-standard equipment” in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL’s) 4G network, which Airtel claims is disrupting its network in the Rajasthan circle.
Japanese Open RAN solutions provider Rakuten Symphony said on Monday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Zain Kuwait to collaborate on a pilot project to deploy cloud-native 5G Open RAN sites in Kuwait.
Open RAN (O-RAN) has long been touted as a disruptive technology in mobile infrastructure with the concept of splitting the RAN into three components, encouraging a more modular architecture that claims to improve operator bottom lines.
Mobile telecommunications provider Zain Kuwait and Parallel Wireless, a provider of open RAN hardware-agnostic solutions, have successfully completed what they describe as a groundbreaking 5G standalone (SA) proof of concept (POC).