The CEOs of large telcos often talk about Open RAN for political reasons – to gain favor and possibly financial support from governments; to put pressure on traditional vendors to be more accommodating on price or technology. The stance of the CTO, while it will naturally reflect these concerns too, is more indicative of a large operator’s real intentions for a new architecture such as Open RAN. So the comments of CTOs tend to be taken more seriously when vendors are weighing the opportunity within each large operator. Of course, some operators are open books, especially the greenfields that are helping to create the Open RAN industry in the first place, led by Rakuten’s Tareq Amin. But the bigger rewards…