ginerelThe US government makes a $42 million bet on open cell networks
Open RAN gets a boost to fight Huawei’s global cellular lead.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24070550/open-ran-standard-us-funding-5g-huawei
Tax payers paying to develop something for giant corporations to use freely… again
…as if pharmaceuticals weren’t enough.
I don’t have enough pharmaceuticals
Um what? Since when are open standards that allow vendor interoperability a bad thing?
42m?
Telecos can waste that on a single mckensy consulting contracg
Well would you look at that! Open standards are useful after all. But somehow admitting that opensource is superior for competition is a hard pill to swallow.
Transporter Room 3“42 MILLION”
And they’re out here wording that (almost certainly intentionally) like it’s some insane waste of money.
Talk to me when it gets near 0.01% of the defense budget.
Or 1% of the money that has been gratuitously sprayed all over every telecom company for things they conditionally accepted money for but never delivered on.