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October 17, 2024

The inaugural International Open RAN Symposium (IORS) convened September 17–19, 2024, in Golden, Colorado, United States of America. NTIA welcomed over 250 participants at the inaugural Symposium from over 20 countries.

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April 1, 2024

ITS, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense’s FutureG Office, hosted the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Forum in Dallas, Texas, from March 26 to 28.

The 2024 RIC Forum brought government, military, telecommunications...

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This Month in ITS History

April 1950: Boulder Chamber of Commerce Begins Fundraising to Attract CRPL

On April 11, 1950, the citizens of the city of Boulder, Colorado kicked off a campaign to raise money to guarantee the Department of Commerce’s new laboratory would be built in the city. With the help of Senator Ed Johnson (D-CO) and Ed Condon, the director of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), Boulder had been chosen to house the new NBS lab in December of the previous year. But the decision was based in part on the promise that land for the labs would be supplied by the City. The Chamber of Commerce started a newspaper advertising campaign in April that compared donated money to insurance premiums. “For a premium of $70,000 the community is assured a $2,000,000 annual dividend in the ...

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