Rakuten plans UK Open RAN customer experience centre

Operator to open facility in the UK next year dedicated to promoting and demonstrating Open RAN.
The project is designed to promote adoption of Open RAN technologies in the EMEA region, and has been funded by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The ‘Open RAN Customer Experience Centre’ will be built at the Rakuten Symphony offices in the UK by March 2023, and will apparently offer telecom operators and industry suppliers ‘direct experience and testing