Ligado Networks, the USA’s would-be wholesale 5G network operator, has announced a co-development deal for 5G base stations, with Open RAN provider Mavenir. The two companies said in June that they would partner on O-RAN compliant remote radio units (RRUs) and cloud-native O-RAN software, to run in the L-band satellite spectrum in which Ligado aims to deploy its network. Ligado recently secured 3GPP approval for official 5G specs to support L-band, and it says its work with the standards body will also contribute to coexistence efforts between satellite and terrestrial networks in many markets. In March, Ligado committed itself to support the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP), which aims to provide a pre-integrated platform for Open RAN. However, the primary RAN…