{"id":1035641,"date":"2026-09-16T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035641"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:16:51","slug":"ntt-docomo-begins-deployment-of-nokia-open-ran-gear-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/ntt-docomo-begins-deployment-of-nokia-open-ran-gear-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"NTT Docomo begins deployment of Nokia Open RAN gear in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: NTT Docomo has initiated commercial operations of Nokia&#8217;s latest base station, configured for a multi-vendor Open RAN environment, marking what the Japanese telecom operator claims is a world-first deployment of the vendor&#8217;s equipment in such a setup. This strategic move allows the base station to connect with open radio units from various suppliers, enhancing network flexibility and operational efficiency. <\/p>\n<p>The O-RAN Alliance-compliant base station supports both LTE and 5G, equipped with Levante and Ponente baseband cards for data and control processing. It integrates Nokia&#8217;s Massive MIMO network optimisation technology to boost connectivity during peak demand. NTT Docomo anticipates the new base station will support a greater number of radio units and consume less power than its existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: NTT Docomo has initiated commercial operations of Nokia&#8217;s latest base station, configured for a multi-vendor Open RAN environment, marking what the Japanese telecom operator claims is a world-first deployment of the vendor&#8217;s equipment in such a setup. This strategic move allows the base station to connect with open radio units from various suppliers, enhancing network flexibility and operational efficiency. The O-RAN Alliance-compliant base station supports both LTE and 5G, equipped with Levante and Ponente baseband cards for data and control processing. It integrates Nokia&#8217;s Massive MIMO network optimisation technology to boost connectivity during peak demand. NTT Docomo anticipates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035653,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035641\/revisions\/1035653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}