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What's the Story? Gone is the multi-vendor dream of open RAN… for now
Season 4
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Light Reading's Phil Harvey, Iain Morris and Mike Dano join the podcast to discuss the original goal of open RAN compared to recent moves by service providers to go all-in on one vendor.
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