AT&T told the US regulator, the FCC, that it plans to add Open RAN-compliant equipment to its network “within the next year”, a similar timeframe to that of Verizon. But it says there is significant work to do to “ensure that O-RAN can meet our complex feature set”, especially for high end enterprise applications and the FirstNet public safety system. AT&T – together with China Mobile – contributed much of the initial code for the O-RAN Alliance’s specifications, when that body was formed from the merger of the AT&T-founded xRAN Consortium, and the China-centric Cloud-RAN Alliance. However, it has been less active in Open RAN trials and roll-outs than operators in Japan and Europe, so far, and may be planning…