Vodafone and Orange complete 4G calls over Romanian Open RAN network

Operators Vodafone and Orange conducted a joint pilot ‘with the first real-life experience of 4G calls’ over a cluster of shared commercial network sites based on Open RAN in Romania.
The pilot took place in a rural area near Bucharest and follows an announcement in February that the operators would build an Open RAN with RAN sharing in some rural parts of Europe where they both have mobile networks.
The commercial traffic pilot purports to demonstrate the benefits of a virtualised r