2025 Telco Cloud Services

Overview

The telecommunications industry is undergoing a fundamental shift as Communication Service Providers (CSPs) aim to take a meaningful role in the next wave of the digital transformation. Traditionally focused on connectivity, CSPs now face pressure to adopt cloud-native agility, automation, and as-a-service models. To remain competitive, they must evolve into “techos”—technology providers that deliver value beyond connectivity.

To support this shift, CSPs are building telco clouds — cloud environments at the network edge.

This survey report examines the evolution of telco networks enabling cloud access by looking at telco cloud motivations, adoption trends and cloud service bundles. It is designed for industry leaders, technologists, and product managers seeking a comprehensive view of how networks are evolving to support new services, open and on-demand business models, and the monetization of network capabilities.

What’s in this report:

• Key Motivation for Operating a Telco Cloud
• Primary Factors Influencing Business Customer Adoption of Telco Cloud Services
• Managed Access to Telco Cloud
• Strategies for Applying Application Differentiation in Telco Cloud Access
• Managed Security for Telco Cloud Access
• IoT services in the Telco Cloud
• Telco Cloud Data Services
• The Value of Deploying AI Inference Models in Next-Gen CPEs
• Strategies to Promote Openness in Telco Cloud Access