Nokia has embraced open RAN to a far greater extent than its two main rivals, Ericsson and Huawei, and with Samsung is the biggest supplier driving the platform forward. This is likely to bring several benefits to the Finnish vendor, despite the potential damage to its own traditional RAN business model and margins. It provides it with a new way to engage with large operators, at a time when it is still undoing the damage done by mistakes with its first-phased 5G silicon and consequent loss of some contracts. It may, if Open RAN takes off in macro networks, make it easier for Nokia – whose market share is smaller than that of the other two big vendors – to…