Dish’s wireless dream crashes and burns as Boost’s network heads for shutdown Was it inevitable? Not necessarily, but a series of misfortunes and missteps paved the way for failure Now all eyes are on EchoStar’s ambitions for a D2D network....

EchoStar’s Boost brand added 150K mobile customers in Q1, putting it in a better situation than a year ago It’s still not out of the woods as investment analysts continue to speculate about when the company will call it quits...

Tariffs are unlikely to derail the entire open RAN movement, but will affect smaller vendors more profoundly If tariffs push operators toward more conservative investment approaches, that could mean open RAN suffers more than traditional RAN Smaller vendors are already...

Wireless carrier stocks followed the rest of the market into negative territory Tariffs will push equipment costs higher, but carriers are expected to stick with their current capex plans For new and smaller open RAN vendors, tariffs can only spell...

Airspan emerged from its 2024 restructuring with a stronger balance sheet  The company recently received a $42.7 million grant to fund open RAN development  In addition to open RAN, CEO Glenn Laxdal sees more opportunity in private networks Open Radio...

Despite poor performance so far, Dell’Oro Group thinks O-RAN will have a near 25% share of the RAN market by 2029 Meanwhile, the Trump administration is planning to roll out O-RAN infrastructure with partners in the Pacific region   Just...

It was a roller coaster year for open RAN AT&T validated the technology when it selected Ericsson to lead its transition to open RAN But many people wonder about the roles of smaller vendors   The past year has been...

AT&T’s ‘multi-vendor’ open RAN strategy appeared to be centered on Ericsson But AT&T says it inked new agreements with Fujitsu and Mavenir for open RAN radios The new radios initially will power small cells, but AT&T’s COO said the overall...

Verizon deployed open RAN-based DAS at two locations in Austin, Texas These DAS systems use O-RAN interfaces and gear from different vendors Using open RAN in the DAS produces cost savings Does deploying an open radio access network (RAN) distributed...

The deal is crucial for Vodafone Idea, which has been losing its subscriber base because of its inability to upgrade its network Nokia will possibly replace gear by Huawei or ZTE Vodafone Idea expected to support Open RAN since it...