LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Mobile and broadband operator
Vodafone has selected six partners to build Europe's
first commercial open RAN (radio access network), it said on
Monday.
It said Dell Technologies, NEC Samsung
, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight
Technologies would help it build one of the largest
Open RAN networks in the world.
Vodafone said the partnerships would build on its new Open
RAN lab in Newbury, southern England, and its planned digital
skills hubs in Malaga, Spain, and Dresden, Germany.
Mobile operators and governments want to encourage the
development of Open RAN technology to help more vendors enter a
market dominated by Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia
.
(Reporting by James Davey; editing by Sarah Young)