According to a 2022 Wind River report, Open RAN (O-RAN) has the potential to deliver up to 30% TCO savings for operators. Because of outlooks like these, LitePoint’s Rex Chen, director of Business Development, believes that O-RAN is emerging as a more compelling for operators than other areas like private networks, for example, when it comes to ways to increase revenue, at least for now. “The thing about private networks is the use case needs to be clearly outlined and defined from the beginning,” he argued.