Continuing our Open RAN Vanguard series, Nazim Benhadid reflects on TELUS’s first year of Open RAN deployment and the network improvements that the operator has achieved. He provides a deployment recap to date, explains what the telco was able to do differently, and reveals key learnings from the past twelve months. He also gives examples of how Open RAN is helping TELUS evolve to meet customer demands and provides details of the operator’s future vision.
Among the topics covered:
- What did TELUS consider would be the primary business benefits of an Open RAN or virtulised RAN (vRAN) strategy, and has that view evolved over time?
- How has TELUS’s experience with Open RAN influenced its perspective on the technology’s potential to meet future requirements for 5G and beyond?
- What is TELUSs’s outlook on the scalability of Open RAN technology for large-scale commercial networks in the next three to five years?
- What is TELUS’s advice or recommendation to other players in the Open RAN ecosystem?
Recorded February 2025
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