Deutsche Telekom has been hyperactive over 5G network slicing recently, demonstrating slice creation on demand and launching a 5G commercial service with national broadcaster RTL Deutschland, exploiting the capabilities. Both developments feature Open RAN pioneer Mavenir, which provided its Converged Packet Core with Open APIs, creating the foundation for virtualization and disaggregation. For Mavenir, such developments continue to put recent travails associated with lackluster growth of Open RAN behind it, suggesting that adoption rates will now pick up as those specialist vendors have banked on. Certainly, Deutsche Telekom is intent on advancing Open RAN despite having conceded recently that the technology was not yet quite ready for large scale commercial deployment. The main point of this recent trial and launch though…