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Vodafone tiptoes into German open RAN party

2026-01-23T15:55:00

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Source: Vodafone Germany

In depth: Cementing its status as a top-five territory, Germany’s state-stimulated ORAN love-in continues. Local Vodafone OpCo confirms plans for modest-but-symbolic deployments this year, with all of the nation’s MNOs now advanced from test to deployment…

This article includes:

  • Themes: 5G coverage; 5G standalone (5G SA); AI-RAN; Cloud RAN (C-RAN); Disaggregated networks; Economics of scale; Energy efficiency; High-risk vendors; Innovation; Integration complexity; Multi-vendor interoperability; Network densification; Network reliability; Network sovereignty; Open radio access network (ORAN); Optionality; Radio access network (RAN) refresh; Rip-and-replace; Security concerns; Software-led RAN; Supplier ecosystem; Total cost of ownership (TCO); Virtualised RAN (vRAN).
  • Events: Deutsche Telekom 30,000-site ORAN tender (2026); German Open RAN funding programme (€300m, 2021); i14y Lab launch (2021); Spring 6 RAN tender (2025); Vodafone Germany ORAN rollout programme (2026); VodafoneThree Huawei rip-and-replace project (2023).
  • People: Thomas Lips.
  • Geographic: Africa; Berlin; Canada; Egypt; Germany; Hannover; India; Ireland; Japan; Middle East; Netherlands; Portugal; Romania; South Korea; United Kingdom (UK); United States (USA); Wismar.
  • Organisations: 1&1; Capgemini; Dell; Deutsche Telekom; Ericsson; Fujitsu (1Finity); German Federal Ministry of Transport & Digital Infrastructure (BMVI); i14y Lab; Intel; Keysight; Nokia; Orange; Samsung; Telekom Deutschland; Telefónica Deutschland (O2 Germany); Vi; Vodafone Germany (Vodafone Deutschland); Vodafone Group; VodafoneThree; Wind River.

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