: Samsung partners with O2 Telefonica to unveil Open RAN network in Germany

Samsung Electronics has partnered with German telco O2 Telefónica to launch the site in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, providing high-performance and reliable 4G and 5G services to customers. This comes after the vendor announced the launch of its first commercial site in Germany.

Both companies in October signed a joint initiaitve with an end goal of developing a roadmap for several tests of vRAN and Open RAN technologies. After series of tests, the companies revelaed that they will be progressing from lab to field with the launch of this first commercial site.

“We are taking another big step in our Open RAN journey. Together with Samsung, we are utilizing the latest Open RAN technologies in our mobile network," said Mallik Rao, chief technology & information officer of O2 Telefónica.

"On the way to the network of the future, we are integrating new network solutions to provide our customers with outstanding connectivity. Open RAN is a building block that can help us to automate our network, deploy new updates faster, and use network components more flexibly."