Rakuten Mobile USA Tapped for Role in Federal 5G Challenge
NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) selected Rakuten Mobile USA to provide distributed and central units for interoperability testing by 5G Challenge host lab CableLabs, said a Tuesday release. The institute is hosting the challenge, in collaboration with DOD, “to…
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accelerate the adoption of open interfaces, interoperable components, and multi-vendor solutions,” NTIA said. In the first-year event, NTIA and ITS will award up to $3 million “to contestants who submit hardware and/or software solutions for one or more … 5G network subsystems.” Interested contestants can still submit white papers to Challenge.gov by 7 p.m. EDT May 5 to take part in the challenge, NTIA said.