It was refreshing to hear a tone of honesty from Abdel Bagegni, the ORAN / vRAN Solution Architect and Program Manager at the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), while speaking at TIP’s FYUZ event in Dublin. At a time when TIP is restructuring its own Open RAN research groups, Bagegni shared his views on the meaningful areas of development in Open RAN. “At first Open RAN was oversold to the industry, which is why there was some frustration post-Covid about the deployment rates,” said Bagegni. “Now we live in a reality of how Open RAN can realistically be deployed.” From Bagegni’s perspective, as might be expected from a TIP official, an entity which Ericsson has recently (and quietly) joined, the 2023…