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Bharti Airtel is one of the pioneers of the O-RAN Alliance. In fact, it holds a board seat in the movement. Bharti Airtel was the first operator to deploy virtual 4G Open RAN trials across multiple cities in India<ref>https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/altiostar-deploys-open-vran-for-india-s-bharti-airtel</ref>. The deployment covered both small cells and macro sites. In April 2022, Bharti Airtel announced that it had achieved a trial speed of 1Gbps in its cloud-based open RAN architecture<ref>https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/29xf59u43i9srykhu94ao/news/airtel-achieves-1gbps-in-indian-5g-open-ran-cloud-trials</ref>. It has deployed 5G services in 8 cities and plans to cover 50 to 60 cities in India by March 2023. Its CTO, RANdeep Sekhon, said, “Open RAN’s readiness to serve a larger scale will happen towards the end of 2023 because we want the total cost of ownership to come down.”<ref>https://disruptive.asia/airtel-says-its-open-ran-5g-strategy-is-on-schedule/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=airtel-says-its-open-ran-5g-strategy-is-on-schedule#:~:text=Bharti%20Airtel%20says%20that%20it,end%20of%20fiscal%2Dyear%202023.</ref> | Bharti Airtel is one of the pioneers of the O-RAN Alliance. In fact, it holds a board seat in the movement. Bharti Airtel was the first operator to deploy virtual 4G Open RAN trials across multiple cities in India<ref>https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/altiostar-deploys-open-vran-for-india-s-bharti-airtel</ref>. The deployment covered both small cells and macro sites. In April 2022, Bharti Airtel announced that it had achieved a trial speed of 1Gbps in its cloud-based open RAN architecture<ref>https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/29xf59u43i9srykhu94ao/news/airtel-achieves-1gbps-in-indian-5g-open-ran-cloud-trials</ref>. It has deployed 5G services in 8 cities and plans to cover 50 to 60 cities in India by March 2023. Its CTO, RANdeep Sekhon, said, “Open RAN’s readiness to serve a larger scale will happen towards the end of 2023 because we want the total cost of ownership to come down.”<ref>https://disruptive.asia/airtel-says-its-open-ran-5g-strategy-is-on-schedule/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=airtel-says-its-open-ran-5g-strategy-is-on-schedule#:~:text=Bharti%20Airtel%20says%20that%20it,end%20of%20fiscal%2Dyear%202023.</ref> | ||
=== 8. | === 8. Orange === | ||
ORANge was one of the founders of the O-RAN Alliance<ref>https://www.parallelwireless.com/wp-content/uploads/Parallel-Wireless-e-Book-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-about-Open-RAN.pdf<nowiki/>page.51</ref>. However, its planned Open-RAN is still in the trial phase. It began trials in 2020 in the Central Africa Republic<ref>https://www.rcrwireless.com/20200721/open_ran/orange-takes-open-ran-to-cnetral-african-republic</ref>. In June 2021, it launched a two-year trial of what it considers Europe's first 5G standalone network. The network will incorporate Open RAN, cloud, and multi-vendor deployments<ref>https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/orange-claims-cloud-native-5g-sa-european-first/</ref>. Five months later, it launched its own Open RAN integration center, which is intended to help operators accelerate the deployment of Open RAN<ref>https://newsroom.orange.com/orange-inaugurates-the-first-laboratory-in-france-dedicated-to-open-ran-technology/</ref>. | ORANge was one of the founders of the O-RAN Alliance<ref>https://www.parallelwireless.com/wp-content/uploads/Parallel-Wireless-e-Book-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-about-Open-RAN.pdf<nowiki/>page.51</ref>. However, its planned Open-RAN is still in the trial phase. It began trials in 2020 in the Central Africa Republic<ref>https://www.rcrwireless.com/20200721/open_ran/orange-takes-open-ran-to-cnetral-african-republic</ref>. In June 2021, it launched a two-year trial of what it considers Europe's first 5G standalone network. The network will incorporate Open RAN, cloud, and multi-vendor deployments<ref>https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/orange-claims-cloud-native-5g-sa-european-first/</ref>. Five months later, it launched its own Open RAN integration center, which is intended to help operators accelerate the deployment of Open RAN<ref>https://newsroom.orange.com/orange-inaugurates-the-first-laboratory-in-france-dedicated-to-open-ran-technology/</ref>. | ||
== Final Assessment == | == Final Assessment == | ||