The initiative is designed to ensure Europe has its own trusted data and cloud infrastructure as opposed to relying on Big Tech.

Agreement in the UK follows partnership in Germany where Ericsson will deliver 4G and 5G packet core infra.

The firm has gathered an ecosystem to work with operators going cloud native.

The UK’s operator’s mobile arm, EE, will use the tech for 4G and 5G.

Analysys Mason's report, commissioned by TIP, thinks so and Dell'Oro reports a five-fold increase in Open RAN spend in Q1.

The rise in its annual operating profit suggests the group's long-term positioning and strategy is starting to pay off.

The two have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to that effect.

Steve Jarrett, Global Head of Data and AI at Orange, talks about the operator’s ambitious network automation strategy, timing and progress.

The operator says the transport domain orchestrator (TDO) is an important step in Vodafone’s evolving network strategy.

SD-WAN is designed to allow firms of all sizes to improve application and user experience and flexibilty at less cost by using a hybrid network.

By Malik Saadi, Vice President, Strategic Technologies, ABI Research

VMware says its Telco Cloud Platform RAN extends the benefits of network disaggregation and virtualization from the core to the RAN.

Deutsche Telekom’s MobiledgeX is experimenting with Anthos as part of its mission to help operators build their own edge clouds.

The first site is at Faenza (pictured) in the province of Ravenna which is better known for its majolica-ware glazed earthenware pottery.

Never mind that we don’t know if operators will succeed at monetising 5G or what 6G is.

The US company is to open a Development Centre just down the road from Vodafone’s OpenRAN Lab announced yesterday.

Vodafone has opened the company’s first OpenRAN Test and Integration Lab at its Newbury technology campus, in the UK.

The operator says it has converted 1,000 antennas to “full 5G”, to offer lower latency and network slicing.

The chip maker is working on an individual basis with Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Mavenir, Radisys and Wind River to develop solutions for its NVIDIA AI-on-5G platform.

Growth of virtual network functions (VNFs) will be driven by virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE).