Four months after the Telecom Infra Project’s OpenRAN project group issued a request for information (RFI), it has announced those vendors which best met the scope of that RFI. The aim of the process is to identify and highlight suppliers which may be well positioned to execute on the vision of an open, disaggregated, virtualized mobile network in future. Vodafone and Telefónica both issued their own RFIs, based on the TIP OpenRAN one. In future, we might expect these independent suppliers to be joined by some new challengers, currently being incubated under the TIP Enterprise Acceleration Center (TEAC) program. Companies like Athonet and BISDN, among others, are being supported by four TEACs, established by BT, DT, Telefónica and SK Telecom,…