The Telco Cloud Operator Profiles

The Telco Cloud Operator Profiles present the network virtualisation strategies of selected operators. Their aim is to provide a picture in ‘plain English’ of these companies’ progress in their virtualisation journeys.

The Telco Cloud Operator Profiles present the network virtualisation strategies of selected operators. Their aim is to provide a picture in ‘plain English’ of these companies’ progress in their virtualisation journeys:

• How they have evolved since they first started
• Where they are heading
• Who their key vendors and partners are
• What STL Partners’ perspective is on their transformation.

Our profiles leverage information from our Telco Cloud Deployment Tracker and reading them with the tracker spreadsheet filtered on the profiled operators will give the reader additional and valuable context.

Operators can use our profiles to learn about other players’ best practice examples and key vendor partners. They can compare their own strategies and learn from others with similar size, operations and market characteristics.

Technology providers can use our profiles to understand the key drivers and challenges which telcos face with telco cloud and how to position their solutions and services to help them achieve their goals.

Each Telco Cloud profile provides:

• A timeline of the operator’s telco cloud journey including the major milestone deployments.
• Details on the operator’s deployments across network areas, with a particular focus on the RAN, core and cloud infrastructure.
• An overview of the operator’s key partners across the telco cloud value chain.
• An assessment of the operator’s overall telco cloud journey so far and its outlook.

In this first set of profiles, we cover four operators:

• Telenor
• Axiata
• Turkcell
• AT&T.

In the coming months, we will add profiles so that we continue to illustrate a wide range of telco cloud strategies, operator types and regions.

Emma Buckland

Emma Buckland

Research Director and Head of Sales Strategy

Emma has worked in the TMT sector since the end of the 1990s, first at operators in France and the UK and later as a consultant and analyst. In her day to day job at STL Partners, she gets involved in quantitative analysis and is part of our network innovation practice. Since 2022, she has been the lead analyst of the Network innovation insights service and is a frequent contributor to its tools and reports, including on open RAN and cloud-native transformation. Emma holds an MSc. Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon.