ORAN Can Help Cut Energy Costs, Coalition Says

Open radio access networks will help providers cut energy costs, the Open RAN Policy Coalition said. “Open RAN enables rapid rollout of efficiency measures across the RAN supply chain.” Electricity costs are 20%-40% of cellsite operating costs, “the majority of which is consumed by the RAN and power amplifiers,” Monday's report said: “Modularized components and open interfaces, combined with innovations in virtualization technologies, will allow telecommunications operators to unlock cloud efficiencies.”