Case Study
Are public clouds right for telecommunications service providers?
redhat.com facebook.com/redhatinc @RedHat linkedin.com/company/red-hat “ Three, the UK mobile provider, believes it will reduce costs 30% by moving its OSS and BSS to public cloud, going from 95% on-premises to 90% in the public cloud and rationalizing its IT portfolio, cutting about 70% of its applications, in the process.” Omdia 1 Introduction Telecommunications service providers (telcos) have been transforming into digital service providers for years. Now with the early stages of 5G and edge deployments coming and as more agile and effi- cient cloud-native architectures take hold, they must consider whether and when they should build out and manage the infrastructures that comprise these new services as private clouds or take advan- tage of the public cloud resources a