Telefónica taps Red Hat’s OpenShift for cloud-native modernisation in Spain, Brazil
MWC26: Amidst a raft of telco deals worldwide, the open-source leader confirms strategic IT and network migration contracts with Telefónica in Spain and Brazil, driving cloud-native modernisation from virtualisation to containerisation with OpenShift, and teasing an automated, AI and edge future.
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- Themes: 5G Standalone (5G SA); 6G; Agentic artificial intelligence (AI); Bare metal hardware; Business support system (BSS); Cloud-native network function (CNF); Containerisation; Copper decommissioning; Customer experience (CX); Customer relationship management (CRM); Edge computing; Fibre rollout; Hybrid cloud; Information technology (IT); Order management system (OMS); Polycloud; System automation; Virtualisation; Virtualised network function (VNF).
- Events: Mobile World Congress 2026 (MWC).
- People: Christian Gebara; Fran Heeran; Gino Grano; Guilherme Marinasco; Hanen Garcia; Marina Huertas García; Rich Stephens.
- Geographic: Asia-Pacific (APAC); Brazil; Europe; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA); Norway; Oman; Spain.
- Organisations: Amazon Web Services (AWS); Bell Canada; Broadcom; Google Cloud; Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); IBM; Juniper Networks; Microsoft Azure; Red Hat; SoftBank; StarHub; Telefónica España; Telefónica Group; Telefónica Tech; Telefónica|Vivo; Telenor; VMware; Vodafone.
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