DT, Three UK among service providers resisting public cloud adoption

Light Reading's Iain Morris explains why many service providers continue to rely primarily on the private cloud and why Deutsche Telekom has invested in developing its own cloud.

At a Glance

  • Telcos resist adoption of public cloud (00:19)
  • Concerns over performance of edge computing in public cloud (03:35)
  • Why Deutsche Telekom is developing its own public cloud (04:23)

PARIS – Network X 2023 – While industry perception is that public cloud adoption is ubiquitous, many service providers are still resistant to trusting the keys to the kingdom to the hyperscalers.

Light Reading's Iain Morris explains why many service providers continue to rely primarily on the private cloud and why Deutsche Telekom has invested in developing its own cloud.

Iain discusses reasons telcos are skeptical of going all-in on the public cloud, including security, edge computing performance and data privacy concerns.

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About the Authors

Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Kelsey is a senior editor at Light Reading, co-host of the Light Reading podcast, and host of the "What's the story?" podcast.

Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications, which led to a communications role at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. There, she orchestrated their webinar program across college campuses and covered research projects such as the center's smart solid-state transformer.

Kelsey enjoys reading four (or 12) books at once, watching movies about space travel, crafting and (hoarding) houseplants.

Kelsey is based in Raleigh, N.C.

Iain Morris

International Editor, Light Reading

Iain Morris joined Light Reading as News Editor at the start of 2015 -- and we mean, right at the start. His friends and family were still singing Auld Lang Syne as Iain started sourcing New Year's Eve UK mobile network congestion statistics. Prior to boosting Light Reading's UK-based editorial team numbers (he is based in London, south of the river), Iain was a successful freelance writer and editor who had been covering the telecoms sector for the past 15 years. His work has appeared in publications including The Economist (classy!) and The Observer, besides a variety of trade and business journals. He was previously the lead telecoms analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, and before that worked as a features editor at Telecommunications magazine. Iain started out in telecoms as an editor at consulting and market-research company Analysys (now Analysys Mason).

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