Technology That Could Shakeup Wireless Market Still Years Away, Official Says

OpenRAN has been touted as a technology that can break Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia’s oligopolistic advantage in the wireless market, but one Chinese industry official cautioned that the emerging technology is still far from maturity.

Typical mobile network architecture relies on proprietary equipment provided by equipment vendors such as Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE and Nokia, who have historically provided nearly all of the hardware and software for particular mobile networks.