Ericsson will not be content to let Nokia and Samsung make all the running in big-vendor O-RAN. Earlier this month, the head of the company’s networking business, Fredrik Jejdling, said Ericsson would take a major role in the emerging open RAN market – not by being first with a compliant product, but by being the first to deliver an offering that can match, or improve on, the performance of existing dedicated systems. He told an online investor event that Ericsson believed in open ecosystems and already had a “prominent and impactful role” in the O-RAN Alliance, but added: “We need to put a realistic view on how and when it will be introduced into the networks to deliver performance and…