Vodafone kicked off the week with the announcement of its first Open RAN suppliers, though the goal of fostering a European ecosystem is clearly still just a goal. Just as Telecom Italia, in May, selected a US and a Taiwanese vendor for its first Open RAN roll-out, so Vodafone has announced a line-up led by US and Asian partners. It has selected NEC and Samsung for the RAN, Dell for edge infrastructure, Wind River for cloud software and Keysight for interoperability testing, with some European representation from Capgemini Engineering, which will ensure integration and interworking between different vendors’ technologies in the lab. Samsung will be the reference RAN software provider and will also supply Massive MIMO antennas and radio units.…