Current Financial Trends Will Drive ORAN Adoption: Mavenir CEO
5G rollouts have been “a disappointment” for most wireless carriers worldwide, with revenue flat and costs growing, Mavenir CEO Pardeep Kohli blogged last week. Kohli predicted industry trends will drive more providers to follow Dish Network’s model and adopt open…
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radio access network architectures. “Operators must change as investors demand profitability,” Kohli said: “In the last downturn, Alcatel, Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, and Siemens were not able to justify building proprietary systems for 4G. I do believe going forward, that even Ericsson and Nokia will not be able to justify making the required investments and continue to build proprietary 5G/6G systems when alternative options are available. If 5G does not succeed, there will be no money for 6G. The solution is to innovate and do ‘more with less.’”