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Omdia and Dell'Oro weigh in with their latest assessments of the RAN market this year, and they're a gloomy read for kit vendors.

Telcos are sticking with one vendor for their open RAN deployments, and that can only benefit a company as well-resourced as Samsung.

Next-generation Ericsson RAN Compute breaks ground in network processing power

“Our new and enhanced RAN Compute portfolio was designed with Ericsson’s customers and their future needs in mind. It both addresses their need to maximize spectrum utilization and facilitates their desire to future-proof their networks with support for Open RAN architectures,” said Michael Begley, Head of RAN Compute, Ericsson.

The US chipmaker is battling a US cohort of Arm licensees over the silicon products used in future mobile networks.

Open RAN proponents continue to hope that a move in India away from Chinese vendors and toward 5G might open doors to the technology. But some analysts dont expect that to happen quickly.

Contracts awarded so far have gone to the Nordic and South Korean giants with zero mention of open RAN.

Fierce competition from the Chinese looks like the main cause of massive layoffs, but the open RAN player had other problems, too.

Its back. Mobile World Congress Barcelona. So what should we expect? Light Reading asked the analysts at Omdia for their predictions.