Major, multi-national operators, as well as numerous others in the telecoms business, have thrown their lots in with the open RAN movement. The idea is to use commoditized hardware to foster innovation and competition in the RAN vendor space and, simultaneously, flip the network economics model in tandem with the massive scale needed to deliver on 5G.
But when you disaggregate a radio site based on open interfaces and specifications developed by groups like the O-RAN Alliance, you create a new kind of operating model. Say your Verizon and something goes wrong in a Nokia market–it’s pretty clear who you call to fix that.
