Was it a live event if there wasn’t a technical hitch? Wireless Watch’s latest webinar, a discussion on the progress of Open RAN, was beset by an absence of reminder emails (thanks Livestorm), but the speakers needed no audience encouragement to debate the lay of the land. Debating the topic was Gilles Garcia, Senior Director of the Wired and Wireless Group at AMD, John Baker, SVP of Ecosystem Business Development for Mavenir, and Timo Jokiaho, Chief Technologist at Red Hat’s Telecom, Media and Entertainment wing, covering EMEA. The slightly clickbait headline read ‘Why hasn’t Open RAN revolutionized the Radio Access Network,’ and while the recording has plenty more depth, it is worth pulling out the main threads of the discussion…