Armita Satari

United Kingdom

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The global RAN market down $9 billion from its peak

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

Despite market conditions having improved in the fourth quarter of last year, worldwide the RAN market was down nearly US$9 billion in 2024 relative to its peak in 2021. This, Stefan Pongratz, Vice President for RAN market research at the Dell’Oro Group, said was the steepest full-year decline recorded in 20 years. “Regional coverage imbalances and monetization challenges are nothing new.
Indosat to deploy AI-RAN in Indonesia, claiming a Southeast Asia first

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

The agreement between the telco and its partners will see the integration of Nokia’s 5G cloud RAN solution with Nvidia’s Aerial platform. The goal of this integration is “to create a unified accelerated computing infrastructure for hosting both AI and RAN workloads”. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the trio includes the development, testing, and deployment of AI-RAN.
KDDI and Space Data team up to launch robotic operations demonstration in Virtual ISS

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

The two firms jointly developed a virtual International Space Station (ISS) with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to demonstrate robotic operations inside the virtual ISS. Tokyo-based telco, KDDI, says the demonstration is to take place from April 2025 to October 2025.
Qvantel wins Veon Group contract covering over 130 million customers

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

The deal covers several digital operators with a combined customer base over 130 million. Qvantel will deliver BSS and end-to-end managed services for Veon digital operators Jazz in Pakistan, Banglalink in Bangladesh, and Kyivstar in Ukraine. Qvantel’s BSS enables the operators to develop, launch, and monetise a wide range of digital services fast. This is key to the success of their digital operator strategy, we’re told.
Network API initiative Aduna grows ecosystem in France

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

French operators Bouygues Telecom and Free (iliad Group) are the latest to join the initiative and their peer Orange France, one of the founding members of the initiative. The operators join an ever-increasing strong list of operator partners and other ecosystem players with a mission to deliver common network APIs, based on CAMARA APIs (the open-source project by the GSMA and Linux Foundation), seamlessly to developers and other third-party users on a global scale.
Nokia deploys cloud-native 5G voice core for Boost Mobile

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

Nokia will deploy cloud-native 5G voice core for Boost Mobile, the fifth largest US MNO by subscriber share, as the latter hopes to accelerate new 5G services roll outs. Hoping to boost its own infrastructure, the MVNO turned MNO will be using the Finnish vendor’s voice core on public cloud with the goal to deliver advanced services, enhanced network automation, and more efficient cloud use faster than its Open RAN cloud-native network has done so far.
Rakuten Mobile and Fujitsu team up for sub6 5G network expansion

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

Rakuten Mobile and Fujitsu are teaming up to expand the Japanese operator’s sub 6GHz 5G network. The pair will be using Fujitsu’s 44R21 radio units which adopts the open RAN specifications based on the O-RAN Alliance. The radio units will underpin communication between base station distributed units and centralised units via fronthaul interface.
Softbank goes all in on AI-RAN at MWC 2025

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

Japanese telco SoftBank, who has been very bullish about the AI-RAN opportunity, has announced five new developments that are part of its broader strategy, pushing its AI-RAN agenda further. The common theme among the announcements is the application of AI for the radio access network (AI-for-RAN), in the RAN, on the RAN, and for the RAN. Some of the initiatives focus on improving energy consumption while others are about performance efficiency.
OXIO picks Mavenir to support its global MVNO solutions

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

OXIO, a Telecom-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform company that helps organisations launch mobile services quickly, is seeking Mavenir’s support for its customers (such as MVNOs) to provide and monetise a full suite of connectivity and messaging services.
US MNOs team up on standardised 5G Network APIs leveraging Aduna

1 month ago | telecoms.com | Armita Satari

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have teamed up to deliver standardised 5G network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using the Aduna platform. The MNOs will deliver advanced network APIs for Number Verification and SIM Swap, both of which Aduna is set to launch in the US in 2025. This is believed to transform how security and fraud detection, including user authentication, is developed.