Note: This is being pushed by the major telecom company in the EU > The Continent's "big four" telcos Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange on Wedn

Note: This is being pushed by the major telecom company in the EU > The Continent's "big four" telcos Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange on Wednesday published a joint "memorandum of understanding" pledging to prioritize the development of "Open RAN" technology They want to have more interoperabilities between equipment and more supplier basically : > Open RAN encompasses the idea of chopping up the 5G supply chain into smaller pieces and imposing standards on equipment and software firms so their products can work together This makes a lot of sense for telco since it would drastically lower the cost of their deployment and the maintenance of the 5G network. Right now, if you take your equipments from one supplier, you are basically locked-in with this supplier since they are not compatible with each-other. So if one equipment fail, you need to buy a replacement from the same supplier.