5G and cloud computing offer communications service providers (CSPs) the opportunity to rethink services, pricing strategies and approaches to partnering.
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5G and cloud computing offer communications service providers (CSPs) an opportunity to rethink services, pricing strategies and approaches to partnering. In doing so they can revolutionize telecommunications in the same way that public cloud providers have revolutionized computing. Mobile operators are at the start of this journey. Even though 5G services have been available in some countries for two years, little service innovation has taken place. Is this because technology is holding operators back, or is it their culture and unwillingness to experiment and take risks? The answer is all the above. Early 5G services are not very different from LTE. Operators have taken the path of least resistance in how they have deployed the new technology, connecting 5G radio access networks (RANs) to LTE core networks. These networks are closed, meaning equipment vendors have delivered access and core networks end to end. Read this report to understand: