Japan's NTT Docomo and NEC join hands on new telecom gear

Nation's top telco eyes Open RAN opportunities in Southeast Asia and Middle East

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Japan's NTT Docomo and NEC are betting on an alternative type of mobile infrastructure known as Open RAN. (Source photos by Nikkei)

CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei Asia chief tech correspondent

BARCELONA, Spain -- Japan's largest telecom operator NTT Docomo is forming a joint venture with NEC to grow its 5G open RAN networking gear business for overseas markets, particularly Southeast Asia and the Middle East, in an effort to break the logtime dominance of major players such as Huawei and Ericsson.

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