Canadian Communications Service Providers and Hyperscaler Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities
This IDC Market Perspective explores the partner alliances that have occurred in the Canadian market between Canada's three largest communications service providers (comm SPs) — Bell Canada, Telus, and Rogers Communications — with the world's top 3 global hyperscalers — Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. It also reviews the telecom-focused offerings of the hyperscalers, identifies key drivers of partnering, and provides an updated summary on partnering activity in Canada since 2018. "Partnering with hyperscalers can provide comm SPs with tremendous benefits of operational efficiencies and cost reductions in the management and maintenance of the core network to bring next-gen network services to market more quickly and leverage real-time data analysis and insights to drive improved customer experiences," said Praveen Datta, research director, Canadian Communications Services. "However, comm SPs need to be wary as the hyperscalers become direct competitors, launching private 5G wireless offers and installing fibre optic networks."
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- Executive Snapshot
- New Market Developments and Dynamics
- Who Are the Hyperscalers?
- Microsoft Azure
- Disrupt Communication Service Economics
- Optimize Next-Generation Networks
- Drive Innovation, New Use Cases, and New Revenue
- Google Cloud
- Monetizing the Edge with 5G
- Reimagine the Customer Journey Leveraging Data, Analytics, and AI
- Bring Operational Efficiency to Core IT and Networks
- Amazon Web Services
- Amazon Web Services for Telecom
- Transition Networks to the Cloud
- Simplify IT Infrastructure and Increase Automation Across Business Processes
- Reimagine Customer Experience
- Accelerate Innovation
- Key Drivers for Partnering Between Comm SPs and Hyperscalers
- Canadian Comm SP Partnerships and Alliances with Hyperscalers
- Bell Canada
- Telus
- Rogers Communications
- Scenarios and Use Cases
- Conclusion
- Advice for Canadian Communications Service Providers
- Core Network Functions
- Next-Generation Networks
- Customer Experience
- Innovation
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- Related Research
- Synopsis
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