The Political Economy of Data: EU Privacy Regulation and the International Redistribution of Its Costs

Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05720-0_5

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“…Second, open RAN can provide an opportunity for tech giants – such as Facebook, Google, Amazon or Microsoft – to increase their control over network infrastructure through their cloud capacities, something that telecommunications operators are wary of letting happen (Lee-Makiyama and Hosuk, 2020). By disaggregating hardware from software, open RAN allows the ‘virtualization’ of network functions, as they can be performed through the cloud rather than hardware on premise.…”

Section: The Benefits Of Open Ran In Questionmentioning

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The geopolitical hijacking of open networking: the case of Open RAN

Plantin

2021

European Journal of Communication

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This article investigates how discourses on open networking technologies provide a social imaginary that industry and government actors mobilize in an attempt to expand their control over mobile telecommunications networks. The case of recent initiatives aiming to ‘open up’ radio access network (or RAN, a key component of telecommunications infrastructure) with an ‘open RAN’ model reveals how the US Government came to promote this nascent technology to create an opposition between its own ‘open’ telecommunications networks versus proprietary and presumed ‘untrustworthy’ networks based on foreign equipment, namely Huawei. While a closer look casts doubts on the benefits of open radio access network to increase network security or to open up the equipment market, this case reveals how openness is an ambiguous notion that can be used by governments to exclude foreign trade enemies, while advocating for trust in telecommunications networks.

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Section: The Benefits Of Open Ran In Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is therefore unlikely that the EU will directly intervene to promote open RAN over other radio access solutions. 1 For all these reasons, commentators claim that ‘Open RAN will have a limited impact on EU deployment of 5G’ (Lee-Makiyama and Hosuk, 2020: 16).…”

Section: The Eu Position On 5g and Open Ranmentioning

confidence: 99%