A group of five top European telcos and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) have separately addressed various concerns over progress with the Open RAN model, which aims to enable greater supplier diversity for the 5G ecosystem, especially the RAN. This reflects dissatisfaction with progress among some service providers, and also fears that the model will fail to achieve its primary goal of diversification by merely transferring the dominance from infrastructure vendors to systems integrators (SIs). The five operators – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Vodafone Group – have published a report seeking to rally the cause by highlighting progress made over the past year in the three core areas of maturity, security and energy efficiency, while also outlining…