From cloud migration to AI integration, five forces are reshaping global enterprise telecom strategies
It’s nothing new that with strong communications comes business success. However, the nature of strong communications in the post pandemic workplace has changed dramatically, with technologies and tools almost unrecognizable compared...
Telefónica Germany reveals how a public cloud overhaul of IT and telecom is redefining its network — and its culture
Telefónica Germany has taken a bold step in telecom transformation by migrating both IT and telecom workloads, including the core network, to public cloud infrastructure....
Microsoft also announced early-stage plans for an AI Center of Excellence to work with public and private partners on AI adoption
In sum – what you need to know:
Microsoft opens first cloud region in Indonesia – The new Indonesia Central region provides local access to...
Alibaba intends to accelerate growth in strategic markets including Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas
Chinese giant Alibaba Cloud is moving ahead with its ambitious global expansion strategy, reaffirming plans to invest CNY380 billion ($52.7 billion) in building out...
The AWS South America (Chile) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch
In sum – what you need to know:
AWS Region Expansion – A new AWS Region will be launched in Chile by end-2026, adding three Availability Zones to serve customers with low-latency,...
The telecom industry is evolving, embracing hyper-automation, AI, and cloud-native technologies to unlock new monetization opportunities. Networks are becoming more complex. Operators must manage fragmented workloads across multi-cloud environments, optimize edge infrastructure, and enhance automation and interoperability to ensure readiness for 6G. They are...
AWS and HUMAIN also plan to build a shared marketplace for AI software
In sum – what you need to know:
AWS and HUMAIN launch $5b AI push in Saudi Arabia – AWS and Saudi AI firm HUMAIN will invest over $5 billion to build a...
Telecom operators are moving from legacy systems to cloud-native networks built for speed, scale and resilience
As global data demands accelerate and next-generation services take shape, the telecom industry finds itself at a crossroads. Operators are under pressure to break free from legacy systems and...
For many CSPs, the 5G focus has turned to the transition to a new cloud-native core, a new service-based architecture and more dynamic service management and orchestration. CSPs are also looking to monetize their 5G investments and improve customer experience by tapping into key...
From core to RAN to edge, Dell Technologies is taking an ecosystem-first approach to telecom transformation
At Mobile World Congress, Dell Technologies showcased how it’s helping communications service providers (CSPs) transform their entire network to an open, disaggregated, cloud-native architecture—beginning with the core network as...
In a world of cloud-native infrastructure, is the network still the backbone — or just another service in the stack?
As telecom networks evolve into cloud-native, software-defined platforms, operators are being forced to ask an uncomfortable question: In a world defined by distributed cloud infrastructure,...
Communications service providers (CSPs) are under mounting pressure to accelerate transformation—the high-level goals are to modernize infrastructure while also deploying a future-ready network, leverage automation to make operations more cost-effective, and diversify revenue streams by delivering new use cases to new markets. And while this idea of telecom transformation may seem clear on paper, it’s a difficult thing to do in the real world given the need to manage mounting technological complexity while also overhauling business and operating models.
Telcos are adopting chaos engineering to test resiliency, reduce downtime and ensure systems can withstand real-world failures — before they happen.
As telecom networks adopt increasingly complex cloud-native architectures, traditional notions of reliability are being upended. In place of static, hardware-centric infrastructure, operators are building...
DevOps is the strategy of bringing together development and operations teams to collaborate to automate the network lifecycle; CI/CD is the execution of this strategy
Vertically integrated, monolithic systems are reliable, but slow to evolve. By decomposing functions into microservices, deployable across distributed environments, cloud-native...
As networks go cloud-native, telecom operators face pivotal choices between telco private clouds or public and hybrid clouds
As telecom networks transition to cloud-native architectures, operators face key decisions about cloud deployment models. Before, telco clouds were private clouds — end of discussion. They...
Deutsche Telekom said the agreement focuses on cloud and AI integration to modernize its networks and applications
German carrier Deutsche Telekom has signed a long-term strategic agreement with Google Cloud, extending until 2030. In a release, the telco noted that the agreement focuses on cloud...
Virgin Media O2 on the “open heart surgery” behind its push to build an end-to-end network automation platform
At Mobile World Congress 2025, executives from Pure Storage, Red Hat and Virgin Media O2 gathered to unpack key themes from the show. The conversation brought to...
Unlike legacy VNFs — often monolithic and dependent on virtual machines — CNFs are designed from the ground up for cloud environments
As telecom networks evolve to meet the demands of 5G, edge computing and automation, traditional physical and virtual network functions (PNFs and VNFs)...
Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Verizon put out a good bit of news, most of which speaks broadly to how it’s laying the groundwork for its long-term network evolution. To briefly call a few out:
In January, the company delineated six tech trends to watch...
O2 Telefónica will also use a unified set of AWS services, including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana, to monitor its entire 5G network
German telco O2 Telefónica Germany, owned by Spanish operator Telefónica, has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
o2 Telefónica has implemented Ericsson Cloud RAN at the first of a what will eventually be eight mobile phone masts in the Offenbach area in Germany
BARCELONA–During Mobile World Congress 2025, Ericsson announced that a deployment by o2 Telefónica has marked the world's first implementation...
The evolution of wireless technology to 5G and beyond with synergistic expansion of use cases into new verticals, such as autonomous vehicles, telemedicine, smart manufacturing, and smart grids, is having a disruptive change on network design. Mobile operators now share network responsibilities with hyperscalers...
Alibaba Group emphasized that the initiative reflects its strategic focus on AI-driven expansion
Chinese holding Alibaba Group has announced plans to invest CNY380 billion ($52.4 billion) in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure over the next three years, South China Morning Post reported.
The initiative...
Under the deal, Bell Canada will roll out Nokia’s Cloud RAN solution, which is designed to be compatible with both existing and future O-RAN systems
Bell Canada and Nokia have expanded their collaboration to include Cloud RAN deployment and the groundwork for Open RAN integration,...
