O-RAN ALLIANCE aims to reshape Radio Access Network (RAN) deployment toward more intelligent, virtualized, and multi-vendor interposable strategies. RAN RIC will disrupt the status quo and create new opportunities for a wider ecosystem to join this segment of the market by helping operators save Total Cost Ownership and users optimized Quality of Experience . Analysts expect the trend of standard RIC deployment to dominate the market around 2024 and 2025.

Competition in the antenna vendor market is heating up as 5G rolls out and market share is coming under serious pressure. In its recent analysis of the worldwide mobile cellular 4G and 5G antennas market, Huawei remains the market leader in the base station antenna market, retaining a first place in both the market share and vendor rankings.

Openness comes to most proprietary technologies, because it is a time honored way of bringing down pricing in any given market. Whether Open RAN concepts emerge in the next 12 months or over the next four years, it will have the same effect, according to a report from Rethink Research.