O2 Telefónica partners with Samsung for German vRAN and Open RAN trials

German operator O2 Telefónica is stepping up its efforts to embrace the latest radio access network buzzwords.
That, of course, means Open RAN and vRAN, which all the cool operators are into these days. While part of the point of these technologies is to open up the RAN vendor ecosystem, O2 Telefónica has chosen to partner solely with Korean giant Samsung on these trials. Perhaps cognisant of this paradox, the joint effort is being framed as a bid to set up even more flexible netwo