One benefit to emerge from all the furore around Huawei’s role in many countries’ 5G infrastructures may be a more coordinated approach to fostering competition within the cellular supply chain. The field was already quite narrow and Huawei’s exclusion confines it even further, to a duopoly, or at best triopoly, comprising Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung, with ZTE, NEC and a few others knocking on the door. It is indeed emerging vendors that have been particularly active promoting Open RAN as a route into major 5G infrastructures for them. But as we discussed last week, efforts to accelerate Open RAN are themselves in danger of defeating their very purpose by attempting to leap forward before the testing capabilities are established and…