The Open RAN (Radio Access Network) Inflection Point - How To Drive Global Scale
RCRWirelessNews, Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
Chunghwa Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and ITRI highlight the path forward for Open RAN interoperability, testing, and ecosystem collaboration
Although interface standardization and interoperability testing have slowed commercial deployment of Open RAN, this architecture-marked by cost efficiency and technological flexibility-is now reaching an inflection point.
Driven by significant long-term commitments from major brownfield operators in key global markets, and growing alignment between the O-RAN Alliance's specification efforts and 3GPP's emerging study of 6G standards, Open RAN appears poised to define the future of mobile network design and operation. But what further steps are needed to accelerate global alignment and speed time-to-value for operators, vendors, and users?