The past week saw developments that pointed to new momentum behind Open RAN, including Telefónica upping its targets for deploying the platform in the coming years, a new set of O-RAN Alliance specs, and the latest Open RAN lab, this one from ARM in the UK (see below). There were also plenty of advances in devices and equipment to support enterprise 5G use cases, including new private 5G Standalone offerings from Nokia (see below). All this might suggest that two great hopes for 5G are making strong progress – one, that it would usher in a new diversity of enterprise-driven revenue streams; and two, that it would enable a brand new take on operator costs and supply chains via cloud-based…