Ericsson has announced that it has ‘taken leadership in industrializing Open RAN,’ saying it will introduce support for open fronthaul across its Cloud RAN and radio portfolio in 2024. It claims that over 1 million Ericsson radios currently in the field are hardware-ready for open fronthaul, but the tone of the announcement is going to upset many who feel that Ericsson is laying the groundwork to hijack the trend. Nokia has launched Network as Code, a new platform that it claims will accelerate network programmability and monetization for users. This is another example of the trend of expressing network functions to customers as API-friendly processes, which can be integrated into other applications. Indian MNO Dish Wireless has signed an MoU,…