Korean carrier KT and Japanese tech company Fujitsu have completed a verification facility at the KT Research and Development Center in Seoul, South Korea, at which the two companies leveraged Fujitsu’s Open RAN-based 5G base station equipment to successfully test call connections during interoperability trials for open fronthaul.
Japanese telco NTT Docomo has provided Fujitsu with technical support throughout the project. With the construction of this new test facility, KT aims to accelerate the introduction of O-RAN technology to Korea’s 5G networks.