Vodafone continues to bolster its commitment to Open RAN, and to take the lead among the European majors in banging the drum for the technology. It has already claimed the first Open RAN deployment in Europe, in a rural site in the UK, and has pledged to support Open RAN in new deployments in the country, reaching about 20% of its base of sites by 2025. Now it has added commitments for its whole European footprint, saying that it plans to roll out Open RAN equipment across about 30,000 sites, reaching 30% of the total base of sites by 2030. As usual with Open RAN pledges there is limited detail on how much of the architecture will be supported –…