Warm words, MoUs and webinars aplenty – but who’s actually winning in Open RAN? Open RAN was originally conceived of as a way to free CSPs from restrictive roadmaps and slow delivery timescales. It wasn’t that CSPs had a beef with any particular major vendor, just that they were all too darned SLOW. If major equipment vendors would give CSPs what they wanted, fine. But if CSP buyers needed to turn to new suppliers to get what they needed, then so be it. And so Open RAN has picked up considerable momentum in the last 12 months, with its appeal spreading within and beyond the original founders of the O-RAN Alliance. But do all those webinars, airtime and column inches translate into a change in the market? We’ve said before that Open RAN is a movement not a standard – by which we mean that its goals are more commercial, than only technical. The success of Open RAN is ultimately judged not by the existence of new (or changed) offerings, but by CSPs actually buying them. With that in mind, our latest report set out to ask a simple question: who’s winning in Open RAN? Who are the vendors who […]