Do you believe this can benefit any operator considering the technology?
- As the center of gravity moves from hardware to software, the business becomes a software-centric business.
- It takes an artist to deploy one Open RAN base station, but it takes software, and an industrialized automation platform, to scale that to 1 million cells.
LEARNINGS – A BETTER WAY
| From | To |
| Capital/people intensive | Software/automation intensive |
| Ten-year innovation cycles | Weekly streams of innovation |
| Big Bang RFP tech model | Trial-to-scale/speedboat model |
| Opaque supply chain limitation | Transparent supply chain choice |
| Generationally improving economics | Continuously improving economics |
| Commodity services race to bottom | Digital ecosystem enabler |
