Why Open RAN is just too hot to ignore
There’s a lot of excitement around the prospects for Open RAN right now – including projections that Open RAN technology investments will hit tens of billions of dollars per year by 2026/7 – as well as ongoing scepticism that disaggregated radio access network infrastructure deployments can ‘work’ for network operators. That friction is an interesting dynamic in itself: Open RAN is arguably the most contentious of the telco industry’s current religious debates.