O-RAN continues to gather momentum, both as the main face of the broader movement for an open, multivendor RAN platform, and as the heart of a political push by the USA to reassert hi-tech leadership, especially in 5G, against China. It is not yet clear whether O-RAN itself is up to either, or both, of these massive tasks, which taken together, would reshape the whole mobile industry landscape. Full success would see the main bastion of power for Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia, the RAN, opened up to a whole variety of vendors – some major challengers from other industries such as the data center, some start-ups; some providing pre-integrated solutions, some just one or two hardware or software elements in…