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

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14 Jan, 2025, 04:52 IST

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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