AI-RAN: Worldwide Forecast 2025-2031

"AI-RAN will experience varied adoption at different layers of the network and reach 20% of total RAN revenue by 2031."

This report provides forecasts for vendor revenue in the AI radio access network (AI-RAN) sector for 2025–2031. It includes details on vendor revenue by RAN domain segment (baseband, RAN control, radio unit and semiconductors) and gives a breakdown of AI-related spending across technology segments such as virtualised RAN (vRAN) and service management orchestration (SMO). The report provides recommendations for vendors and mobile network operators (MNOs).

Questions answered in this report

• What are the trends and factors that will affect the AI-RAN market during 2026–2031?
• Which will be the main areas of new revenue, and how will AI perform in terms of value at different layers of the RAN?
• What market changes will result from the adoption of new architectures?
• How will the various integrations of AI-assisted and AI-native RAN perform by domain?
• Which regional factors will drive growth?
• What should vendors do to exploit new business opportunities?