AT&T has issued an update of its progress converting its radio access infrastructure to Open RAN just 10 months after announcing its $14 billion five-year deal with Ericsson for that purpose. The operator claims to be on target with its ambition of 70% of its network traffic running across the open platforms by 2026. Much was made at the time of the announcement in December 2023 that the deal appeared to flout the original Open RAN ambition of widening the supply chain to more than a handful of big vendors, with just Fujitsu also in the mix for supply of some 5G radios. Yet, while the latter was small beer compared with Ericsson’s involvement, it represented significant progress for Fujitsu…