U.K. telco Virgin Media O2, NEC and Rakuten Symphony have announced that their joint multi-vendor Open RAN deployment is entering the field phase, starting with the activation of the first live sites in Virgin Media O2’s commercial network.
In a release, Rakuten Symphony noted that the O-RAN deployment is initially taking place in the Northamptonshire region.
The field deployment, which is now operational to handle commercial traffic, follows an O-RAN lab trial on Virgin Media O2’s network with NEC, Rakuten Symphony and other ecosystem partners last year.
