Deutsche Telekom touts progress on software-based mobile networks

BERLIN: Deutsche Telekom has successfully tested software-based mobile network technology using high-capacity antennas, it said on Monday, a potential alternative to existing network suppliers that could give mobile firms more flexibility and cut costs.

The trial of its Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) in the German town of Neubrandenburg is the first of its kind in Europe, Deutsche Telekom’s technology chief Claudia Nemat told an online presentation.

“We are convinced that – as the technology matures – it will drive choice and innovation in a new ecosystem of partners,” Nemat told the event, which coincided with, but was separate from, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.