Orange gives MNO perspective in new 6G project Orange is providing operator input to the new European DETERMINISTIC6G project with €5.7m ($6.1m) funding. Coordinated by Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Ericsson, there are 10 partners, others being B&R, IUVO, and SSSA, KTH, University of Stuttgart, Silicon Austria Labs, Cumucore and Montimage in addition to Orange. The main objective is to take account of applications within industrial automation, manufacturing, transport, medicine and entertainment, focusing on deterministic communication with guaranteed latency at high reliability. This will help provide the basis for standardization of time-sensitive communications under 6G. Rakuten launches network planning system Japan’s Rakuten Symphony has launched Symworld RAN Commander as a one stop shop for automated 5G network planning…