5G NETWORKS
“ OpenRAN has the potential to fast forward innovation in the 5G network , accelerating the rate of production of new architectures and solutions ”
JOE BUTLER CTO , DIGITAL CATAPULT with third party integrations and hardware . The upshot of this is that , by and large , the world ’ s telecom operators have a very limited series of choices when it comes to swapping out and modifying different elements of their 5G networks .
This wouldn ’ t be much of an issue if there were a lot of options to choose from . Sadly , however , this is not the case .
Currently , most mobile operators looking to build a 5G network have a grand total of three choices when it comes to where to buy the infrastructure to underpin that network : Nokia , Ericsson or Huawei .
In the UK ( not to mention the US and a growing cohort of other nations ) that grew even shorter in the past few years , with the Chinese technology giant incurring a blanket ban on selling 5G infrastructure
82 May 2021