Now specific funding allocations are being made
Billions of euros had been earmarked for digital technology advances
The network tech fund looks set to focus on Open RAN investments
News comes as Euro telco giants seek public funding for Open RAN
Talk about wish fulfilment. Just as the ‘Open RAN G4’ of European telco giants were committing to deploy disaggregated radio access networks and calling for national and regional government funding to help develop a European Open RAN ecosystem, Angela Merkel’s German government was rubber-stamping a significant investment in Open RAN R&D as part of its monster economic stimulus package, according to documents seen by German business newspaper Handelsblatt. (See Euro telco giants commit to Open RAN, lobby for state support.)