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Forget 5G, they’re already fighting over 6G.
I love tracking the wireless industry’s machinations, and it sounds like there’s already a small battle brewing over who will write the 6G specs. The main fight? Whether network vendors will keep shipping closed hardware, or whether they’ll move to “Open RAN” which... well, we did a whole Decoder episode on it.
Batra told Fierce that open RAN came into existence because the standards weren’t moving fast enough for disaggregation in the previous generations. A certain set of operators – AT&T being one of them – decided to create the Open RAN Alliance in 2018.
Nokia promises not to make same mistakes with 6G as 5G
[Fierce Wireless]
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