Vendors take note; after three hours of looking at slides and listening to speakers, the room really wakes up when hardware makes an appearance. Such was Ericsson’s experience at its pre-MWC event, when Anna Dicander, VP and Head of Radio and Transport Engineering, discussed the seven new radios that Ericsson has added to its RAN portfolio. Ericsson is on track to have over 130 Open RAN ready radios by the end of 2025. It is shipping units that can essentially be software-upgraded to Open RAN compliancy, and Dicander said that by the end of the year, 67% of our shipments will be Open RAN ready. “Our closest competition is around 20%,” she said, emphatically. Dicander ran through the portfolio, some…