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Vodafone adds Euro-heft to unbalanced AI-RAN Alliance

2025-07-14T07:05:00

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Source: Vodafone

Vodafone’s entry into the AI-RAN Alliance takes the still-young vendor- and academic- and Asian-operator-heavy consortium past 100 members. With the AI-RAN market forecast to reach $10bn by 2030, the move underscores the strategic importance of efficiency gains and new revenue opportunities through autonomous networks.

This article includes:

  • Themes: AI networking; AI-RAN; Artificial intelligence (AI); Autonomous networks; B2T (business-to-telecom); Capex; Cloud RAN; Cloud-native; Edge computing; Geopolitics; GPU; Interoperability; Network optimisation; Open RAN (ORAN); Opex; Radio access network (RAN); Software-defined infrastructure; Virtualised RAN (vRAN); Zero-touch operations.
  • Events: DTW Ignite; Mobile World Congress 2024; Spring 6.
  • People: Alex Jinsung Choi; Francisco Martín Pignatelli; Inês Matos; John Saw; Mabel Pous-Fenollar; Santiago Tenorio.
  • Geographic: Africa; America; Asia; EMEA; Europe; India; Italy; Netherlands; Romania; Spain; UK; US.
  • Organisations: 3GPP; AI-RAN Alliance; ARM; Boost Mobile; Capgemini; Dell Technologies; DeepSig; Deutsche Telekom (DTAG); e& (Etisalat); Ericsson; Globe; Huawei; Indosat; Intel; Keysight; Korea Telecom; LG Uplus; LightReading; Microsoft; Nokia; Northeastern University London; NVIDIA; O-RAN Alliance; Orange; Samsung; SK Telecom; SoftBank; T-Mobile US; Turkcell; University of Tokyo; Verizon; Vi; Vodafone; VodafoneThree; VodafoneZiggo; Wind River.

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