AI RAN was called out as one of the big themes of MWC 2025. That is only half right, because while AI RAN was certainly one of the top talking points, quite a lot of that talk was negative, at least for now. The majority of operators Wireless Watch spoke to at the event were cautiously in favor of AI RAN as a future option, but dismissed it as too expensive and impractical at present. The main sticking point is the cost of the GPUs and associated AI RAN accelerators that would be required to implement AI RAN today. At the same time though the promised benefits such as edge AI inferencing, which led to AI RAN being a major…