Mavenir has put a slightly different spin on job cuts just announced than Parallel Wireless did around six weeks earlier at the start of July 2022, but in both cases most of the losses are in Wireless sales and marketing. Both also are keen to scotch any idea that these job losses reflect loss of momentum for the Open RAN movement, more an inevitable step in its early development. The job cuts could even be presented as sign of market maturation, as jobs shift from presales and marketing to aftersales, deployment and support. But that would be to gloss over the reality that at this stage, despite some prominent successes, the Open RAN movement has generated a lot more…