Dish Network has selected Samsung to provide its 5G Open RAN-compliant virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and radio units across its U.S. markets. The Samsung radios — some of which will be Massive MIMO radios — will also support all of Dish’s Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum bands — n71, n29, n66, n70, n48 and n77.
Branded as the SMART 5G network, Dish’s wireless network is a greenfield, nationwide 5G network architected using cloud-native and Open RAN principles. According to Dish Wireless President and Chief Operating Officer John Swieringa, Samsung’s solutions will play “an integral role” in the network’s expansion by delivering flexibility via “software-based solutions that support advanced services and operational scalability.”
