Special Report: A new year for Open RAN Our first special report of the year focuses on the latest developments in Open RAN, and as might be expected in this rapidly moving and much-hyped area, there have been plenty, even in the few weeks of the holiday break. Behind all the political posturing and the barrage of announcements, we believe 2022 will see Open RAN vendors and deployers identifying the real commercial sweet spots for the platform and starting to sign deals and form partnerships accordingly. As we have analyzed before, initial deployments will come in private wireless and rural markets, as our special report indicates. By the end of 2022, we expect to see parallel ecosystems – overlapping…