Patrick Lopez of {Core Analysis} and Earl Lum of EJL Wireless Research join Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to have a Radio Access Network (RAN) focused recap of Mobile World Congress 2024 held in Barcelona a week and a half ago. Patrick and Earl are two of the leading telco industry analysts who have covered MWC for years focusing on telco infrastructure and RAN radios respectively. Leonard gets these two experts in a dialogue about:

* Impressions of MWC 2024 from the analyst perspective (3:48)
* Are O-RAN and the Open RAN movement going in the right direction? (9:05)
* Does an open Open RAN mean becoming inclusive even with the so-called incumbents? (21:20)
* The future of Open RAN, is it hybrid and multi RAN? (29:00)
* AI-RAN. What is it and why? (31:00)
* The grounding of Open RAN by the operator agenda (40:00)
* What are the analysts hoping to see at MWC 2025 from RAN (42:23)
* Exciting new reports by {Core Analysis} and EJL Wireless Research (45:31)

Connect with Patrick Lopez at www.coreanalysis.ca and Earl Lum at www.ejlwireless.com. Hit both of them up on LinkedIn and take part in their industry and tech insights.

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