ORAN adoption is exploding - five reasons why

By Willem Wentzel | Head of Wireless at NEC XON

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​5G is causing a step change in Africa’s mobile networks. Operators are grappling with how to respond. Get in early? There may be expensive lessons you’ll teach your competitors at no cost to them. On the flipside, you may miss the market opportunity.  But service providers have a lot more options today to roll out 5G. Exploring these can shed light on when the best time may be.

The Open RAN (ORAN) initiative has gained serious ground in the past year. It has gained support from a slew of international vendors, including NEC. It’s also benefited from the ground-breaking Rakuten deployment.

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