Telecom Infra Project (TIP) had established a strong pattern of using its annual European conference to mobilize major operators to champion, and progress, the open networks cause. This year’s event was virtual, but still made a big impact, with Vodafone continuing its tradition of using the summit to call out the strongest open RAN suppliers. TIP itself, among other things, announced a new Open RAN project group, and a set of blueprints which could be critical to making the new open multivendor networks deployable by the mass of operators. The new project group brings together two separate RAN efforts and will be chaired by Vodafone and T-Mobile USA, with participation from Bharti Airtel, BT, China Unicom, Intel, Ooredoo, Smartfren, TPG…