Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo recently announced that it has begun allowing overseas mobile operators to access its Shared Open Lab, located in its R&D facility in Yokosuka, Japan, to verify their virtualized radio access networks (vRAN).
In a release, NTT DoCoMo noted that the lab is one of the initiatives of the New window5G Open RAN Ecosystem (OREC) project under which DoCoMo and 13 global vendors are working to develop flexible Open RAN capable of incorporating interoperable equipment of multiple vendors.