This Global Trends benchmark update analyses the level of open radio access network adoption worldwide, examining industry deployment initiatives and government policy support across 15 jurisdictions.
The benchmark covers Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the EU, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, the UK and the US.
The report covers:
- commercial deployments and operator strategies;
- government policy positions and financial support mechanisms;
- AI-RAN emergence and its relationship to open RAN architecture.
Despite representing only 8% of the global US$35bn RAN market in 2024, open RAN deployments accelerated in the US and India while Europe remained largely at trial stage. This reveals significant geographic disparities in adoption of disaggregated network architectures.
Policy support diverged significantly. The US was exploring moving away from actively promoting open RAN as of April 2026, while the UK reaffirmed its 35% traffic target by 2030. Korea increased its testbed budget, and India approved 136 projects under its production-linked incentive scheme for telecom equipment manufacturing.
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