Dish chooses VMware’s cloud platform for building 5G network

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network said on Friday it had opted for software maker VMware Inc’s telco cloud platform to build its next-generation wireless network.

Dish, which is racing to build a 5G network in the United States by 2023, has chosen a new technology called Open Radio Access Network (RAN) to deploy its network.

(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Editing by David Holmes)