At Wireless Watch, we keep a very regular eye on the activities of challenger companies that may break into the closely guarded 4G/5G RAN and core fortress. The competitive landscape, static ever since Huawei entered the market with such disruptive force, is now shifting again. This time, there is no single new force to up-end the industry. Instead, the landscape is a kaleidoscope, with many elements constantly rearranging themselves. Riding on the wave of interest on open architectures such as O-RAN, and by the start of the slow progress to a fully virtualized and disaggregated network, the prospect of a more diverse and competitive supply chain seems more real than it did at the start of the 4G era. Then,…