Samsung bags a tasty Dish Open RAN deal

Dish is definitely, definitely, probably about to launch its 5G network in the US, and this week it revealed Samsung will supply some of the kit it needs.
The multi-year, cross-country agreement will see the Korean electronics giant supply its Open RAN-compliant virtualised RAN (vRAN) software. It will also provide radio units including massive MIMO radios. Samsung’s vRAN solutions work on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers, making it a good a fit for Dish’s cloud-native network