Canada’s second operator, Telus, will require vendors to support open RAN specifications in future, the company’s VP of network and architecture strategy, Bernard Bureau, told LightReading’s Big 5G Event. However, he did not make it clear how deep Telus would go in terms of making the specs compulsory – just the fronthaul interface, a box which the big vendors could tick, or adoption of the whole disaggregated O-RAN Alliance architecture? And Bureau made it clear that open RANs needed to be simpler to deploy. For a smaller operator, “you want to have an implementation that is simple enough”, he said, since Telus would not have the engineering resources of a Rakuten or Vodafone, and would need an integrator to put…