- Effective June 25, 2024,
Dr. Abdurazak Mudesir, Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom, was
elected as Chair of the O-RAN ALLIANCE's Board
BONN, Germany, July 11,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- O-RAN ALLIANCE announces that
Dr. Abdurazak Mudesir, Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom, was
elected as Chair of the Board, effective on June 25, 2024. Under Abdu's chairmanship, O-RAN
ALLIANCE stays fully committed to its mission to transform Radio
Access Networks to be open, intelligent, virtualized and fully
interoperable.
On June 25,
2024, Dr. Abdurazak Mudesir,
Group CTO, Deutsche Telekom, was elected as Chair of the O-RAN
ALLIANCE's Board
Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, with his
departure from Deutsche Telekom, has stepped down from the O-RAN
ALLIANCE Board Chair. Alex was one of the founding directors of the
O-RAN ALLIANCE in 2018. He served as Chief Operations Officer until
2022, and then as Chair of the Board until June 2024. As a renowned thought leader in the
telecom industry, Alex greatly contributed to advancing the O-RAN
mission. The O-RAN ALLIANCE expresses sincere thanks to Alex for
his leadership and enthusiasm.
"O-RAN ALLIANCE plays an essential role in the industry by
setting an open specification framework and by facilitating the
development of an innovative and competitive O-RAN ecosystem," said
Abdurazak Mudesir, Chair of the
Board of O-RAN ALLIANCE and Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom. "O-RAN
ALLIANCE remains committed to its efforts in architecture design,
interfaces and test specifications, open source developments as
well as development of the O-RAN ecosystem towards large scale
deployments and global impact."
About O-RAN ALLIANCE
The O-RAN ALLIANCE is a
world-wide community of more than 300 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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