Today, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has announced the launch of its new Future Open Networks (FON) Research Challenge, aimed at providing funding to enable universities to work with major RAN vendors on Open RAN R&D.
The Challenge will allocate £25 million in funding across numerous university-led projects, aiming to explore the validity and further develop open and interoperable telecoms equipment for 4G and 5G…
