New Economic Report shows how Alium can help Open RAN save billions in costs and accelerate new service deployments

Alium today released a report by Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner and Bella Private Markets, showing how Alium’s Open RAN Patent Pool can help Open RAN save billions in costs and accelerate new service deployments.

As the report describes, while Open RAN has the potential to reshape the market for mobile telecommunications by increasing vendor diversity, lowering costs and energy consumption, facilitating wider adoption of 5G, and giving operators greater control over their networks, it relies on a crowded and complex patent landscape with little or no royalty benchmarking information.

The report concludes that Alium’s Open RAN Patent Pool can reduce royalty stacking, hold-up, and expensive litigation risks while accelerating future revenue growth and profitability.

Estimated direct cost savings on Open RAN Radio Units (RUs) by 2025 (subject to assumptions in the Report)

Radio Unit (RU) Price Decrease Estimated Saving

Mid-band 15% $1.4 billion

High-band 15% $2.3 billion

The full report can be found here.