Azita Arvani, CEO of the Americas, Rakuten Symphony
What is the current status of Open RAN in the industry, what are the key success factors today, and how should an existing operator go about adopting Open RAN in the best possible way? Azita Arvani, CEO of the Americas at Rakuten Symphony, provides the answers, along with her thoughts about the challenges for existing operators and the assertion that Open RAN is more complicated than the traditional deployments. She also discusses what else, aside from technology, is involved in the transition to Open RAN and offers her advice for any mobile operator still considering their execution strategy.
Recorded June 2023