description, please
I know El Reg had at least one article about openRAN before, but this is an entire article about it that provides no definition of what it is. Not even what the acronymic name is short for.
It took me a couple minutes on Wikipedia to learn that "RAN" is Radio Access Network.
And then:
OpenRAN — enabling open ecosystem of GPP-based RAN solutions, chaired by Andrew Dunkin (Vodafone) and Adnan Boustany (Intel).
GPP: well, 3GPP is 3rd Generation Partnership Program - relating to LTE.......