Open RAN

Open RAN isn’t upsetting the status quo – Appledore analyst

By Ray Le Maistre

Nov 17, 2023

Francis Haysom, Principal Analyst, Appledore Research

Three years ago, Appledore Research predicted that Open RAN sector developments wouldn’t unseat the incumbent mobile infrastructure vendors and that the market for open, disaggregated RAN systems would ultimately be dominated by traditional vendors, such as Ericsson and Nokia, along with pre-integrated solutions from a few other major companies, leaving only a small slice of the market to mix-and-match multivendor solutions. Based on recent Open RAN sector developments and trends in procurement processes, the firm’s forecast may not only be generally accurate but possibly even conservative, explains Francis Haysom, principal analyst at Appledore Research.

Recorded November 2023

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