O-RAN ALLIANCE Extended Board of Directors has been elected for the upcoming 2-year term Abdurazak Mudesir, Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom, was re-elected as Chair of the Board
BONN, Germany, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On December 17, 2024, the O-RAN ALLIANCE General Members Meeting concluded election of its Extended Board of Directors for the upcoming 2-year term.
O-RAN ALLIANCE welcomes China Telecom, SoftBank and UScellular as new Board members.
Current members of the Board are:
Company
Director
Alternate Director
AT&T
Yigal Elbaz
Brian Daly
Boost Mobile
Eben Albertyn
Jingyi Zhou
China Mobile
Yuhong Huang
Chih-Lin I
China Telecom
Yue Wang
Qingtian Wang
Deutsche Telekom
Abdurazak Mudesir
Petr Ledl
KDDI
Takuya Sawada
Masaaki Koga
NTT DOCOMO
Takaaki Sato
Masafumi Masuda
Orange
Claire Chauvin
Atoosa Hatefi
Rakuten Mobile
Sharad Sriwastawa
Awn Muhammad
SoftBank
Ryuji Wakikawa
Alex Jinsung Choi
Telefonica
Enrique Blanco
Jose Luis Espla
TIM
Andrea Calvi
Marco Caretti
UScellular
Michael Irizarry
Narothum Saxena
Verizon
Steven Rice
Edward Diaz
Vodafone
Nadia Benabdallah
Francisco Martin
Abdurazak Mudesir, Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom, was re-elected as Chair of the Board.
"With O-RAN ALLIANCE specifications and architecture, operators have the option to deploy Radio Access Networks that are open and secure, and enhanced with intelligent functions to optimize deployments and operations," said Abdurazak Mudesir, Chair of the Board of O-RAN ALLIANCE and Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom. "Guided by operator priorities, O-RAN ALLIANCE remains committed to driving the transformation of the RAN toward openness, intelligence, virtualization, and full interoperability, to enable large-scale deployments in mobile networks."
About O-RAN ALLIANCEThe O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of mobile operators, vendors, and research & academic institutions operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry. As the RAN is an essential part of any mobile network, the O-RAN ALLIANCE’s mission is to re-shape the industry towards more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable mobile networks. The new O-RAN specifications enable a more competitive and vibrant RAN supplier ecosystem with faster innovation to improve user experience. O-RAN based mobile networks at the same time improve the efficiency of RAN deployments as well as operations by mobile operators. To achieve this, the O-RAN ALLIANCE publishes new RAN specifications, releases open software for the RAN, and supports its members in integration and testing of their implementations.
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