Jan 13, 2025   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Board of Directors for the Term 2024-2026

    --  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. 13, 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 ALLIANCE
The 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.

For more information, please visit www.o-ran.org.

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