Omdia stated the highest distributors in Q3 at a worldwide scale have been Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE, and Samsung
In sum – what to know:
$8B world RAN market in Q3 – Omdia stories complete RAN {hardware} and software program income reached roughly $8B in Q3 2025.
International vendor rankings – Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia lead globally, whereas Ericsson tops the excluding-China rating, adopted by Huawei, Nokia, Samsung and ZTE.
The worldwide Radio Entry Community (RAN) market posted regular exercise within the third quarter of 2025, with revenues of almost $8 billion, in accordance with preliminary takeaways from an upcoming report by Omdia.
Rémy Pascal, RAN lead analyst at Omdia instructed RCR Wi-fi Information that the determine counts {hardware} and software program however excludes all providers.
For world RAN income within the interval, the highest distributors have been Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE and Samsung. When world income excluding China, the highest distributors have been Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Samsung and ZTE.
Pascal added that total momentum exterior China stays constructive. “We anticipate the worldwide RAN market, excluding China, to develop by a low single digit this yr,” he stated.
Omdia additionally highlighted the highest three suppliers by RAN income in every main geography. In North America, the highest distributors in Q3 have been Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung. For Asia and Oceania, the main suppliers have been Huawei, ZTE and Nokia. In Europe, the highest three have been Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei. For the Center East and Africa, the highest distributors have been Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia, and in Latin America and the Caribbean, the highest positions went to Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia.
Synthetic intelligence-driven and cloud-native architectures are accelerating RAN transformation throughout Asia-Pacific, but full-scale Open RAN (O-RAN) adoption stays restricted exterior Japan, Pascal lately stated in an interview with RCR Wi-fi Information.
Pascal famous that Japan stays the regional chief — and the worldwide reference level — for open vRAN deployments. “There’s Japan and there’s the remainder of APAC,” he stated. “With Rakuten Cellular, Japan has the biggest open vRAN community on the earth. And NTT Docomo and KDDI have additionally been early adopters of open RAN and vRAN of their industrial networks.”
Past Japan, Pascal stated progress has been slower, with “actions in different nations together with India, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam and others, however at smaller scale, principally pilot deployments and trial actions.”
He clarified that Omdia makes use of the time period open vRAN slightly than O-RAN as a result of it combines two essential shifts: practical disaggregation and virtualization. “Open vRAN as we outline it combines the rules of Open RAN — RAN practical disaggregation, open fronthaul interface — and the rules of vRAN — virtualization of the baseband features, use of so-called general-purpose servers as a substitute of devoted home equipment,” Pascal stated. “Open vRAN is extra transformative than open RAN alone, and it’s all the time multi-vendor.”
