For part of the recent Open RAN European Forum, RCR Wireless News surveyed 100 members of our audience to gain a better understanding of how they’re thinking about Open RAN deployment. Top motivations include cost reduction and vendor diversification, while concerns range from ongoing interoperability testing to ease of use for private networks. Here we’ll present the survey results along with expert commentary from Mavenir Senior Vice President of Business Development John Baker and Viavi Solutions’ Owen O’Donnell, TeraVM marketing manager.