Veon eyes Open RAN for Ukraine rebuild

Kyivstar parent Veon has brought in Rakuten Symphony to assist with the reconstruction of its infrastructure in Ukraine.
To support the Ukrainian State Agency for Reconstruction and Development of Infrastructure’s ‘We Build Ukraine’ initiative, the two firms have signed an MoU under which they have agreed to work on rolling out Open RAN-based 5G networks that Veon says will underpin a new generation of digital services.
Veon, which operates in six markets in total, announced in