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"Vi is doing 5G trials in various circles with vendors such as Mavenir and Samsung using vRAN and ORAN deployment. The total cost of ownership or deployment capex will likely be lower on vRAN and ORAN as it allows vendor interoperability. Thus, it could work well for Vi due to its balance sheet constraints," Ashwinder Sethi, principal at consultancy firm Analysys Mason, told ET.
Notably, Samsung is already working with Vodafone Group for the latter’s commercial network in the UK. In February, this ORAN network partnership was expanded to Vodafone’s operations in Germany and Spain. Sources said that Vodafone Idea is also trying to build on Samsung’s global partnership and looking at possible tie-up in India following the PoC.