Open RAN may now have passed the "peak of inflated expectations" stage of the Gartner hype cycle but there are still no suggestions of a "trough of disillusionment". As our newly updated Open RAN dossier shows, the movement is gaining traction. There's support from greenfield operators (Rakuten in Japan, Dish… Read more...

From Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy has suffered severe shocks in the last few years. But one area of opportunity is Africa. According to the UN, a young population and improving healthcare mean that half of all population growth from now until 2050… Read more...

The histories of spectrum policy and the mobile industry are closely intertwined. Much of the news in radio spectrum is driven by the stakeholders with the deepest pockets: mobile operators. Mobile operators' business strategies and technology focusses vary, but they all need spectrum. How they obtain that spectrum depends on… Read more...

This week Parallel Wireless announced it will build a 4G Open-RAN network in Colombia using the 700 MHz band. The announcement adds to growing momentum behind the approach, as operators hope it will allow them to build better, safer, and cheaper mobile networks. As we set out in our Research… Read more...

One of the clear trends in the telecoms industry at the moment is operators' increasing interest in the use of Open RAN approaches to network buildout. The idea is to separate hardware and software components of Radio Access Networks and to standardise the interfaces in a network's architecture. This approach… Read more...