To coincide with last week’s Mobile World Congress, Deutsche Telekom announced that its ‘O-RAN Town’ real world testbed, first promised late last year, had gone live near the city of Neubrandenburg. When O-RAN Town was first unveiled, Nokia was a supplier, but it did not appear in the list of vendors set out by the German telco last week. Instead, it said it is running RAN virtual network functions from Mavenir on Dell or Supermicro servers and Intel’s FlexRAN architecture, with radios from Fujitsu and NEC. That follows in the pattern set by other early-stage Open RAN deployers in Europe, such as Telecom Italia, which have tended to use US and Japanese technology despite the goal of fostering a European…