Indian carrier Vodafone Idea is open to carrying out additional pilots of Open-RAN (O-RAN), and would potentially consider the deployment of O-RAN networks once the technology is mature enough, The Economic Times reported, citing a company executive.
“I can say that at Vodafone Idea, we are more than happy to do the trial and pilots, and to deploy if it [O-RAN] is actually having the feature parity and stability, and it’s making the capex and opex sense. We have done the trials. We are going to do more pilots,” Jagbir Singh, CTO of Vodafone Idea said.
“Is there a need for Open RAN and virtualized RAN? The answer is yes. But are we there yet? To my mind, no,” Singh added.
