Technology Magazine April 2022 | Page 219

“ We need to transform the legacy infrastructure into an open network ”

YASUHIRO HIGASHIYAMA HEAD OF GLOBAL BUSINESS , TELECOM & UTILITY SECTOR , NTT DATA JAPAN autonomous operation systems for Open RAN together with Fujitsu and DOCOMO ."
By 2025 , NTT DATA expects this open network to account for a major share of the market . “ At the moment mobile operators such as Huawei , Nokia , and Ericsson dominate the network ,” Higashiyama says . “ But in our view , we expect that over the next three to five years , most of the market will be an open network .” technologymagazine . com 219