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  "description": "Although it didn’t originate that way, O-RAN has become seen as an ‘anti-Huawei’ alliance. It stands to gain as U.S. and Europe are mandating removal of Chinese telecom equipment",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-11T01:35:47.000Z",
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  "textContent": "BARCELONA, March 10, 2026 — For decades, mobile operators had little choice in how they built their networks. A handful of equipment vendors controlled the entire stack – radios, software, and the interfaces between them – leaving carriers dependent on whichever supplier they had chosen and unable to mix components from competitors.\n\nThat changed in February 2018, when five of the world's largest mobile operators founded the O-RAN Alliance at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) that year. The founding members – U.S.-based AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Japan-based NTT DOCOMO, and France-based Orange – advocated for open, interoperable mobile networks, in which hardware and software from different vendors can be mixed and matched instead of purchased as a single proprietary system. The approach, they argued, would drive down costs, accelerate innovation, and reduce dependence on any single supplier.\n\n### _Eight years in_\n\nEight years later, advocates of the movement said on March 3, at the 2026 O-RAN Alliance Summit, that one of its most ambitious bets has paid off. Rakuten Mobile, the Japanese carrier that built the world's largest fully open, cloud-native mobile network from scratch, reported its first annual profit last year. The network now serves 10.2 million subscribers across 350,000 cells built on disaggregated, multi-vendor infrastructure.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "8 Years After Its Founding at Mobile World Congress, Can Open RAN Scale?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T09:56:32.770Z"
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