The Dell’Oro Group predicts that global telecom capex will fall 7% between 2022 and 2025. “Capex acceleration remains a transitory phenomenon in a world where neither 4G nor 5G has been able to change the revenue trajectory,” it declares. Vodafone is reportedly about to issue a major Open RAN RFQ, covering its entire global footprint of 170,000 sites. Announced at the FYUZ conference, Vodafone is also testing Open RAN deployments in Italy, with Nokia. This appears to signal a major uptick for Open RAN in 2025. Vodafone and Arm have announced a development partnership, focused on a new chipset designed for Open RAN applications. SynaXG and Ampere will test and validate the design, with Fujitsu supplying the RAN software that…