Tag: parallel wireless

January 11, 2024

U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless said it has already deployed a total of 1,500 sites across Africa. Parallel Wireless partnered with regional telecommunications providers and governments in countries including Nigeria, Tanzania, Guinea Conakry, Ghana, South Sudan, Uganda, DRC, […]

December 14, 2023

U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless announced the general availability of what it claims to be the world’s first hardware-agnostic 5G Standalone (SA) software stack. The company noted that the full Standalone solution gives operators, private networks and public […]

June 6, 2022

Operators are looking for cost reduction in both CAPEX and OPEX — and RAN is one of the biggest cost factors for operators. It is also one of the most challenging areas when introducing new features and services. Tackling the […]

April 25, 2022

Open RAN is much more than just an opportunity to diversify vendor supply chains and introduce open standards into networks. It is an opportunity to innovate within what has always been a very hardware-centric and fixed part of the network. […]

February 3, 2022

U.S.-based Open RAN company Parallel Wireless announced the opening of a research and development (R&D) lab and testing facility in Ottawa, Canada to further develop 5G radio access equipment and expand the firm’s global presence. The new Canadian Parallel Wireless […]

June 29, 2021

With MWC taking place this week in Barcelona, The Fast Mode ran a brief interview with Eugina Jordan, VP of Marketing at Parallel Wireless. As a leading vendor of Open RAN architecture, Parallel Wireless covers some of their achievements in […]

May 12, 2021

Millicom has selected Parallel Wireless for the deployment of O-RAN-compliant Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) architecture in Latin America. The O-RAN network will be deployed by Millicom’s subsidiary Tigo Colombia, with the aim of delivering 4G service coverage in […]

April 7, 2021

Etisalat, following a joint announcement with Rakuten Communications Platform to develop a reference design for cloud-native, Open RAN networks, is furthering its commitment to disaggregation of the radio access network through a production trial with Open RAN specialist Parallel Wireless. […]

August 14, 2020

The DevOps movement inspired large, enterprise organizations with agile practices to allow developers to make quick changes, but it was very difficult to get full benefit, as their legacy development process was not designed for supporting short software development delivery […]

July 21, 2020

Parallel Wireless on July 16 announced it is working with multi-national carrier Orange to use its disaggregated Open RAN technology to expand coverage in the operator’s Central African Republic network footprint. In addition to the coverage boost, Orange is looking […]

April 13, 2020

Open radio access networks are a hot topic in telecom right now with major, multinational operators looking to break out of the big, end-to-end vendor ecosystem potentially in favor of smaller companies working together to foster hardware and software interoperability. […]

January 28, 2020

While 5G has dominated the telecoms industry news pages for quite some time, the newest generation of mobile connectivity has yet to penetrate the consumer consciousness in quite the same way. Adoption of 5G handsets has been slow to date […]

January 14, 2020

This year, carriers across the globe will be considering how they can cost-effectively roll out new 5G networks, whilst reducing complexity in their legacy 2G/3G/4G infrastructure. In developing markets, carriers face the challenge of delivering 2G, 3G, and in some […]

October 28, 2019

Major, multi-national operators, as well as numerous others in the telecoms business, have thrown their lots in with the open RAN movement. The idea is to use commoditized hardware to foster innovation and competition in the RAN vendor space and, […]

December 14, 2018

Parallel Wireless announced that it was selected by Wisconsin-based wireless carrier Cellcom for their network expansion. Parallel Wireless says that it makes deployments as easy and as cost-effective as Wi-Fi and will connect both consumer and business subscribers in the […]