NTT DOCOMO: 2023 TO BE THE DEFINING YEAR FOR OPEN RAN

Global interest continues to grow regarding Open RAN, which uses open and standardised wireless base-station specifications to enable the devices and systems of multiple telecom vendors to be interconnected in mobile networks. However, operators constructing networks incorporating devices from just a single vendor are now facing technical and verification challenges in their efforts to implement Open RAN. NTT DOCOMO, as the world’s only company to have constructed networks implemented with multiple vendors since the 4G era, is leveraging its expertise to support the Open RAN efforts of operators worldwide. Based on the company’s corporate philosophy of ’creating a new world of communications culture’, today DOCOMO is utilising its individual potential to provide