Nokia chosen by Softbank and KDDI for Japan’s shared RAN Nokia has been selected by Japanese mobile operators Softbank and KDDI as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared RAN. The deployment will deliver 5G services to both Softbank and KDDI subscribers, and will be based on a multi-operator RAN (MORAN) architecture, which will allow both companies to share the RAN while keeping core networks separate. The network will operate initially in three modes – LTE, 5G and dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS), which allows both radio technologies to work in the same bands. It will feature plug-in cards based on Nokia’s latest Reefshark system-on-chip. These will increase the capacity of the AirScale baseband products to scale flexibly and efficiently.…