This live Q&A show was broadcast at the end of The Future of RAN Summit. TelecomTV’s Guy Daniels was joined by industry guest panellists for this question and answer session. Among the questions raised by our audience were:

• Is the ‘future of RAN’ more likely to be the ‘future of RANs’?
• Will the increased use of private 5G contribute to the development of technology and apps for the public RAN sector?
• How seriously should we take the security problems that come with RAN supply chain diversification?
• What are the latest developments for both the real-time RIC and non-real time RIC?
• What are the hardware bottlenecks preventing us from opening the RAN?
• Can telcos now run RAN workloads at scale on the public cloud?
• How much Open RAN has been deployed in telecom networks and are there regional differences?
• How inevitable is it that telcos will shift to a virtual RAN/cloud RAN model?

First Broadcast Live: May 2025