In case you missed it, NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson and Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Director Amanda Toman joined EchoStar Co-Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen, EchoStar CEO Hamid Akhavan, EVP and Chief Network Officer Marc Rouanne and other stakeholders to announce a $50 million grant to the ORCID consortium to establish an Open RAN testing center at a DISH Network (a wholly-owned subsidiary of EchoStar) facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

 At the event, participants outlined ORCID's unique advantages, including that it will leverage DISH's experience as the only operator in the United States to commercially deploy a standalone Open RAN 5G network. After the event concluded, DISH and EchoStar executives led a tour of a DISH 5G Open RAN cell site, which was among the first to be deployed by DISH in the U.S.

See below for the full video from the press conference.