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• Ericsson’s joint announcement with AT&T this week of plans for high-scale open RAN deployment represents an important milestone for the open RAN movement and could help stimulate the ecosystem.
• But it’s not clear exactly how widely and quickly AT&T plans to put in place true open RAN in the most meaningful sense – multi-vendor base stations that invigorate supplier competition and software innovation.
Source: Ericsson, AT&T
Ericsson’s joint announcement with AT&T this week of plans for high-scale open RAN deployment represents an important milestone for the open RAN movement, which AT&T helped launch to begin with, but which has not yet seen dramatic acceleration in operator networks. AT&T’s moves in that area could help alter the movement’s trajectory.