Open RAN has plenty of critics, including Cruz, who point out that the technology has been slow to develop. While some telecom companies have begun incorporating aspects of open RAN, the technology hasn’t been seen as widely transformative as initially hoped.Skeptics also fear the current rollout would further entrench the existing telecom giants, including traditional European hardware players like Ericsson and Nokia, the largest non-Chinese 5G equipment makers, which integrated open RAN into t...