{"id":31604,"date":"2025-09-04T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hotelsalepage.com\/feed\/cision-pr-newswire\/o-ran-alliance-announces-its-new-chair-of-the-board\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:09:14","slug":"o-ran-alliance-announces-its-new-chair-of-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=31604","title":{"rendered":"O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Chair of the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2431547\/O_RAN_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span>, Senior Vice President, RAN Disaggregation &amp; Enablement, Deutsche Telekom, is elected as Chair of the O-RAN ALLIANCE&#8217;s Board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">BONN, <span class=\"xn-location\">Germany<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 4, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; O-RAN ALLIANCE announces that <span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span>, Senior Vice President, RAN\u00a0Disaggregation &amp; Enablement, Deutsche Telekom, has been elected as new chair, effective from <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 28, 2025<\/span>. Under Thomas&#8217; chairmanship, O-RAN ALLIANCE stays fully committed to its mission to transform Radio Access Networks to be open, intelligent, virtualized and fully interoperable.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">   <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2764607\/Deutsche_Telekom___Thomas_Lips_business_horizontal_2.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Chair of the Board.\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2764607\/Deutsche_Telekom___Thomas_Lips_business_horizontal_2.jpg?p=medium600\" alt=\"O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Chair of the Board.\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>   <br \/>   <span>O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Chair of the Board.<\/span>  <\/div>\n<p>At Deutsche Telekom, Thomas is responsible for the development and commercial introduction of disaggregated RAN across the group. Additionally, Thomas oversees Deutsche Telekom&#8217;s patent management and active participation in global standards bodies, including the O-RAN ALLIANCE and 3GPP. With over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Thomas has held numerous strategic and leadership positions, including serving as\u00a0CTIO and board member of T-Mobile Poland and CTIO of Deutsche Telekom IoT.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span> will succeed Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Abdurazak Mudesir<\/span> as Chair of the Board. The O-RAN ALLIANCE expresses sincere thanks to Abdu for his leadership and direction. Under his guidance, O-RAN has advanced its mission focus on key priority areas for enabling scaled deployments and laying the foundation for accelerated AI adoption in the RAN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O-RAN ALLIANCE has been laying the foundation for open and disaggregated RAN, enabling faster adoption of intelligent solutions for more efficient networks,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span>, Chair of the Board of O-RAN ALLIANCE and SVP, RAN Disaggregation &amp; Enablement, Deutsche Telekom. &#8220;Under my chairmanship, the O-RAN ALLIANCE will remain committed to its mission to transform the RAN to be open, intelligent, virtualized, and fully\u00a0interoperable. We will focus on priority areas to support large-scale open RAN deployments by operators worldwide. A key goal is to provide a framework for AI-enabled open RAN, creating new opportunities for intelligent and autonomous networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>About O-RAN ALLIANCE<\/b><br \/>The O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of mobile operators, vendors, research &amp; academic institutions as well as governmental agencies, operating or interested in Radio Access Networks (RAN). As the RAN is an essential part of any mobile network, the O-RAN ALLIANCE&#8217;s mission is to re-shape the industry towards more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully\u00a0interoperable mobile networks. O-RAN specifications enable a more competitive and vibrant RAN supplier ecosystem with faster innovation to improve user experience. O-RAN based mobile networks at the same time improve the efficiency of RAN deployments as well as operations by mobile operators. To achieve this, the O-RAN ALLIANCE publishes new RAN specifications, releases open software for the RAN, and supports its members in integration and testing of their implementations.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4501349-1&amp;h=1039531573&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.o-ran.org&amp;a=www.o-ran.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.o-ran.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2431547\/O_RAN_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span>, Senior Vice President, RAN Disaggregation &amp; Enablement, Deutsche Telekom, is elected as Chair of the O-RAN ALLIANCE&#8217;s Board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">BONN, <span class=\"xn-location\">Germany<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 4, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; O-RAN ALLIANCE announces that <span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span>, Senior Vice President, RAN\u00a0Disaggregation &amp; Enablement, Deutsche Telekom, has been elected as new chair, effective from <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 28, 2025<\/span>. Under Thomas&#8217; chairmanship, O-RAN ALLIANCE stays fully committed to its mission to transform Radio Access Networks to be open, intelligent, virtualized and fully interoperable.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">   <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2764607\/Deutsche_Telekom___Thomas_Lips_business_horizontal_2.jpg?p=medium600\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Chair of the Board.\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2764607\/Deutsche_Telekom___Thomas_Lips_business_horizontal_2.jpg?p=medium600\" alt=\"O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Chair of the Board.\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>   <br \/>   <span>O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Its New Chair of the Board.<\/span>  <\/div>\n<p>At Deutsche Telekom, Thomas is responsible for the development and commercial introduction of disaggregated RAN across the group. Additionally, Thomas oversees Deutsche Telekom&#8217;s patent management and active participation in global standards bodies, including the O-RAN ALLIANCE and 3GPP. With over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Thomas has held numerous strategic and leadership positions, including serving as\u00a0CTIO and board member of T-Mobile Poland and CTIO of Deutsche Telekom IoT.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span> will succeed Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Abdurazak Mudesir<\/span> as Chair of the Board. The O-RAN ALLIANCE expresses sincere thanks to Abdu for his leadership and direction. Under his guidance, O-RAN has advanced its mission focus on key priority areas for enabling scaled deployments and laying the foundation for accelerated AI adoption in the RAN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O-RAN ALLIANCE has been laying the foundation for open and disaggregated RAN, enabling faster adoption of intelligent solutions for more efficient networks,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Thomas Lips<\/span>, Chair of the Board of O-RAN ALLIANCE and SVP, RAN Disaggregation &amp; Enablement, Deutsche Telekom. &#8220;Under my chairmanship, the O-RAN ALLIANCE will remain committed to its mission to transform the RAN to be open, intelligent, virtualized, and fully\u00a0interoperable. We will focus on priority areas to support large-scale open RAN deployments by operators worldwide. A key goal is to provide a framework for AI-enabled open RAN, creating new opportunities for intelligent and autonomous networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>About O-RAN ALLIANCE<\/b><br \/>The O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of mobile operators, vendors, research &amp; academic institutions as well as governmental agencies, operating or interested in Radio Access Networks (RAN). As the RAN is an essential part of any mobile network, the O-RAN ALLIANCE&#8217;s mission is to re-shape the industry towards more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully\u00a0interoperable mobile networks. O-RAN specifications enable a more competitive and vibrant RAN supplier ecosystem with faster innovation to improve user experience. O-RAN based mobile networks at the same time improve the efficiency of RAN deployments as well as operations by mobile operators. To achieve this, the O-RAN ALLIANCE publishes new RAN specifications, releases open software for the RAN, and supports its members in integration and testing of their implementations.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4501349-1&amp;h=1039531573&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.o-ran.org&amp;a=www.o-ran.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.o-ran.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}