Some of the world s biggest telecom organizations are banding together to promote policies friendly to the open RAN technology trend. As nations begin to deploy next-generation networks, our goal is to make certain that a healthy, robust ecosystem exists to ensure competition and consumer quality, wrote the US-based Open RAN Policy Coalition in a release. Our organizations are united by the need for responsible policy action in support of open RAN, and we look forward to working together on this important objective.
The Open RAN Policy Coalition is joining with software alliance BSA, cable technology development association CableLabs, mobile industry trade group GSMA, and software development association Telecom Infra Project (TIP) in the new effort.
Antitrust lawsuits and maintaining growth are among the challenges, while electric vehicles and government help for U.S. chip makers are seen as bright spots. .After a year of startling growth, the tech industry faces a more vexing 2021.
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“It’s an unconscionable position: no relief for the American people unless corporations receive blanket immunity from lawsuits,” Schumer said.
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Senate approves funding bill by voice vote to avert shutdown: The Senate passed a one-week stopgap bill on Friday, hours ahead of a government shutdown deadline.
Senators passed the bill by a voice vote, moving the funding deadline from the end of the day Friday to Dec. 18. The one-week continuing resolution (CR) already passed the House on Wednesday, meaning it now goes to President Trump
Though a shutdown is averted for now, negotiators are still trying to lock down a mammoth agreement that would include the 12 fiscal 2021 bills and fund the government until Oct. 1, 2021. The Hill’s Jordain Carney tells us more about the work left to do here.
The FCC voted Thursday to implement a program that will pay some US network operators to rip out their Huawei and ZTE equipment and replace it with trusted infrastructure.
However, the effort s details remain somewhat vague, including exactly where network operators can turn to for replacement parts.
Interestingly, the agency did offer one clear guideline on the topic: It s OK for network operators in the program to use open RAN equipment. The Replacement List should include equipment and services equipped, or upgradable to, be used in O-RAN, or in virtualized networks, the FCC wrote in its new 130-page order on the topic, using the O-RAN moniker to refer to open RAN technology. Including O-RAN equipment and services . is consistent with the Secure Networks Act s requirement that the Replacement List be technologically neutral.