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Vodafone has started removing legacy Huawei equipment at 2,500 sites across Wales and the South-West in line with Government timelines to remove high-risk vendor technology and replacing it with new OoenRAN tech. Huawei’s links to the Chinese Communist Party British led to it being deemed as unsafe to be used as critical telecom infrastructure by
The deployment marks the first time in Europe that OpenRAN has been deployed in an urban environment, as it usually focuses on more rural areas
BT has launched 5G across the UK via its EE network, which will cover more than half the UK population by 2023.
Vodafone has supported the OpenRAN ecosystem since its conception in 2016 and actively uses OpenRAN across the UK.
The solution has been designed for Vodafone’s business customers
The operator claims the deployment is one of the largest in the world
Vodafone UK CTO Scott Petty calls this an important milestone for the operator