When major telcos in the world’s biggest mobile economies share their Open RAN vendors or milestones, they naturally attract significant attention, but this can obscure the amount of activity and innovation that is going on in developing economies. There are good reasons why the Open RAN community can look to these markets for an early impetus: Operators will often have very challenging cost efficiency targets as they expand 4G and plan 5G while grappling with low ARPUs The growth in mobile usage is as high in most developing economies as in mature markets, so operators have an urgent need for platforms that will support that flexibly, while not driving costs up too sharply Operators will sometimes have made less recent…