At Mobile World Congress 2024, Philippine telco NOW Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rakuten Symphony to establish a collaborative framework for deploying a 5G Open RAN pilot in the Philippines.
Veon’s Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar said at Mobile World Congress 2024 on Monday it intends to purchase and deploy Open RAN and 5G technologies from Japan’s Rakuten Symphony into its network.
Mobile World Congress 2024 takes place next week, and Developing Telecoms will be at the show in Barcelona to report on the major trends that will shape the sector in emerging markets across the next year.
In June 2021, Samsung became a strategic partner for Vodafone to deploy Open RAN network. Since then, the two companies have been expanding their collaboration, recently marking a milestone of kicking off the largest Open RAN rollout in the UK in August 2023.