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 to grow its 700,000 subscriber base.
While a good deal of Open RAN discussion is focused on its role in ongoing 5G deployment, one of the fundamental aspects of the technology, as it’s described by the Telecom Infra Project, is a unified infrastructure and software stacks for 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. This is key in developing markets like Central African Republic where only 48% of the population having unique subscriptions.
