According to a new report by analysts at the Dell’Oro Group, vendors including Nokia, Cisco, CommScope, Ciena and Cambium are among the companies signaling that they plan to raise prices for telecom equipment, blaming supply chain disruption, global inflation and other factors. This is bad timing, given that operators are so keen to push for reduced prices and total cost of ownership, and often cite this as a key objective for deploying Open RAN. “Following 20 years of average macro base station price declines in the 5% to 10% range, we are now modeling RAN prices to increase, reflecting a wide range of factors,” report author Stefan Pongratz told Light Reading. “In addition to the changing vendor landscape and regional…