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Huawei Cloud Offers a Differentiated Partner for Telco Transformation, but Geographic Boundaries Remain Challenging

By Reece Hayden | 26 Jan 2023 | IN-6814

For telcos to avoid falling further behind digital service providers, they must pursue more effective cloud transformation strategies to support network infrastructure monetization. But challenges abound, especially given their lack of cloud expertise. Operators must partner effectively with public cloud providers to bridge infrastructure and knowledge gaps. So far, these partnerships have been dominated by U.S. heavyweights (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)), but Huawei Cloud could offer telcos a strongly differentiated proposition given its deep telecoms expertise and infrastructural dominance in emerging regions.
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Written by Reece Hayden

Principal Analyst
As part of ABI Research’s strategic technologies team, Principal Analyst Reece Hayden leads the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) research service. His primary focus is uncovering the technical, commercial, and economic opportunities in AI software and AI markets. Reece explores AI software across the complete value chain, with a cross-vertical and global viewpoint, to provide strategic guidance for, among others, enterprises, hardware and software vendors, hyper scalers, system integrators, and communication service providers. Reece previously worked in the distributed & edge compute team, where he supported clients across various areas, including enterprise connectivity (including network-as-a-service), edge AI platforms, and the semiconductor market.