Market Leader Program
Open RAN Operator Survey
Open RAN systems can deliver competitive radio performance and user experience. The challenge is to industrialize the model and deploy the technology at regional and nationwide scale.
Open interfaces, in combination with disaggregated hardware/software platforms, and state-of-the-art automation, create the conditions for long-term innovation in the RAN that will impact the entire the mobile network ecosystem.
Heavy Reading’s Open RAN Operator Survey (5th edition) investigates how operators plan to deploy and operate next-generation RAN.
White Paper
Heavy Reading's 2024 Open RAN Operator Survey
New survey data shows open RAN is at the threshold of large-scale commercial deployment. This 25-page report presents and analyzes the results from Heavy Reading’s 2024 Open RAN Operator Survey. This fifth edition of the survey shows operator commitment to open RAN is stronger than ever. And while Heavy Reading is not yet ready to declare the technology a mainstream success, the survey shows the market is now close to the threshold of large-scale adoption.
Among the topics covered in this report are:
Among the topics covered in this report are:
- Expectations for live deployments – where will the industry be at the end of 2025?
- Health and vitality of the multi-vendor RAN ecosystem
- Massive MIMO technology preferences and deployment plans
- The balance of purpose-built RAN appliances and virtualized cloud RAN
- Changes in sentiment from previous editions of the survey
Webinar
2024 Open RAN Operator Survey:
At the Threshold of Scale Deployments?
Open RAN aims to serve diverse mobile network use-cases from low-cost emerging markets through to ultra-dense urban networks. To do this reliably, at scale, is technically and commercially demanding. This webinar presents the results from the 5th edition of the Heavy Reading Open RAN Operator Survey conducted in summer 2024.
Among the topics to be discussed include:
Among the topics to be discussed include:
- Expectations for live deployments – where will the industry be at the end of 2025?
- Health and vitality of the multi-vendor RAN ecosystem
- Technology preferences and the migration to programable RAN
- Changes in sentiment from previous editions of the survey
Featured Blogs
Featured blog
Open RAN ecosystem is diverse and well backed, but don’t take it for granted
Half (49%) of the respondents to Heavy Reading Open RAN Operator Survey believe the “vendor ecosystem is vibrant with enough suppliers for open RAN to thrive.”
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Featured blog
Operators say vendor "optionality" is the watchword for open RAN in 2024
A majority of operators (59%) want multi-vendor RAN deployments that integrate new and traditional vendors, says a new Heavy Reading survey.
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Featured blog
Operator confidence in open RAN products jumps in 2024
Heavy Reading operator survey shows that 48% of respondents believe open RAN products/architectures are now “mature for scale deployments.”
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Featured blog
How tightly linked are AI RAN and open RAN?
The new Heavy Reading Open RAN Operator Survey (5th edition) identifies a strong link between AI RAN and open RAN, but some do not put the two technologies on a straight-line continuum.
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Samsung pioneered the successful delivery of 5G end-to-end solutions and aims to advance 5G networks with its leading product portfolio, including vRAN 3.0, Open RAN, and Core. With these solutions, the company helps mobile operators deliver connectivity to hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
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