Samsung, Vodafone, and Orange unleash 4G revolution in Rural Romania

Samsung in collaboration with Europe’s Vodafone and Orange completed the first 4G calls over shared commercial networks in rural areas of Romania. By leveraging Samsung’s vRAN, both operators can take advantage of the greater flexibility and innovation brought by the Open RAN ecosystem.

Following Vodafone UK’s Open RAN deployment and the successful integration tests in Orange’s Open RAN lab in France, Samsung provided its multi-RAT vRAN software as well as Open RAN-compliant radios for this initiative.

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As part of their pilot project, both operators have already achieved successful 4G calls over their respective Open RAN sharing sites and will soon introduce 2G, which has already been tested successfully in the lab, and then 5G.

It will be the first time 2G is fully integrated within a commercial Open RAN sharing environment in Europe. RAN sharing will help advance wide-scale Open RAN adoption in Europe.