Vodafone has been a driving force in cultivating the Open RAN ecosystem as it works towards the goal of using disaggregated radio systems in 30% of its European networks by 2030. With nearly two dozen owned and operated networks around the world, and 14 of those in Europe, this will clearly be a major undertaking. At the Telecom Infra Project’s FYUZ event, Vodafone’s Yago Tenorio, director of network architecture and TIP’s board chairman, in his opening remarks ran through a number of Open RAN-related press releases Vodafone put out today, saving for last what he termed his “favorite announcement. … We agreed that Nokia is going to deliver a fully-compliant Open RAN system—the first incumbent supplier that has actually fully embraced Open RAN.”
