It is not just Dish which has selected Mavenir to help it deploy an open RAN. Vodafone Idea, the largest MNO in India, has made a similar choice, as it looks to harness the low cost and flexibility of cloud-native platforms to be more competitive against its aggressive challenger, Reliance Jio. Jio, as a new entrant, has been able to adopt open, affordable architectures from day one and to leverage an agile digital platform, and low cost of ownership, to launch a wide range of digital services and to undercut its rivals in all its tariffs. Jio has just announced that Facebook has taken almost a 10% stake in its parent, Reliance Platforms, which will boost its ability to expand…