Open RAN Advocates Rise To US 5G Challenge
Ericsson and the Open RAN Policy Coalition identified testing as a key priority for a proposed US government programme aimed at speeding development of an open 5G ecosystem, but offered differing opinions on what the focus of that work should be. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last month sought ideas on how to structure a potential 5G Challenge scheme, to create systems which could be used by the Department of Defence. Ericsson put interoperability testing at the heart of its proposal, suggesting the US government host a 5G...
