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Stick, slip, slide: telco Open RAN commitments Orange, DT, Telus, STC and KDDI give insight into Open RAN rollouts. Orange sticks to 2025, Telus pivots to O-RAN only, STC might slide to Q1 2021, while DT slips Open RAN target to 2027 following its "keep bits of Huawei" deal. https://lnkd.in/ehTntSVy

Samsung Networks wins another Open RAN deal, for now an all-Samsung Open RAN deal in terms of the RU-DU-CU. We know its a brownfield deployment that scales Open RAN to production, but not more than that publicly. Red Hat is the chosen cloud environment for this one. https://lnkd.in/ezcTeZj7

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On March 26th, 2025, a group of 11UK University labs will demonstrate a range of 6G use cases and enabling technology. The demos will show how spectrum across multiple legacy and future access networks – WiFi, non-terrestrial, THz, optical wireless and cellular – can be managed by a common controller. There will be a focus on applications such as Integrated Communications and Sensing and holographic communication, and future network technology directions such as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and the integration of AI into networks to create intelligent networks end-to-end. This may, to those in this end of the industry, sound like a standard list of 6G and future network research directions – advanced as they are. But there will be something different about the March 26th demos – they will have been developed by teams utilising a brand new, end-to-end shared communications, cloud and edge compute infrastructure known as JOINER. https://lnkd.in/er24tZhN

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Telus will only deploy O-RAN from now on, convinced of its feature parity and ease of integration. Bernard Bureau Vice-president of Wireless Strategy and Services, TELUS, has called for mobile operators to “push mobile vendors to move faster into the O-RAN ecosystem” and denied that O-RAN integration is too complex for operators to manage. https://lnkd.in/e33ZP4Jn

How the (AI)PI could change telco BSS like magic Telco leaders talk about their vision to turn around their financial positions and better monetise network investments by becoming user-centric and partner-friendly platform businesses. Their aim is to underpin and enable that platform capability with newly-bulked up software engineering businesses, and an operating structure that benefits from flexible and Composable IT architectures. These will be boosted by the power of AI and Gen AI to understand and act upon business intentions. A key foundation of the new IT architecture is a framework of open APIs that are intended to make it much easier for Operational and Business Support Systems (OSS and BSS) to interact with each other, so that operators can construct services and offers in a much more dynamic manner. But as TMN learnt during a live event at the AWS stage at Digital Transformation World, the open API model might not go far enough to enable the new operating vision that telcos are targeting. So how can telcos fully harness the power of AI to monetise their network investments? https://lnkd.in/ePPunhDm

New from Keith Dyer: A deep dive into cloud and AI company Vultr and its bold ambitions in the telco space. Vultr has introduced a platform designed to help telcos run their own AI factories and power cloud and AI-native applications. 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 https://lnkd.in/eXwSJE4J

Orange says Ericsson API Venture is not a Nokia ouster CAMARA makes first API release, operators form JV for API commercialisation with Ericsson. How will the ecosystem look? - Bilteral terms for API monetisation between operators the the new JV - Venture far from exclusive in linkin opeators to API aggregators and platforms - Orange to continue working with Nokia as a API platform partner https://lnkd.in/ecbVhpa2