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Telco Cloud Market Forecast
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Last Updated: 26 Jun 2024

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Public Cloud Hosting of Telco Network Functions – Tracker
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Last Updated: 21 Aug 2025

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Telco Network Cloud Market Tracker – 2025 Annual Forecast Report

Omdia estimates the telco network cloud market to grow roughly 12% in 2025 (up from 6% in 2024), with high single-digit growth continuing thereafter. Increasing maturity of the automation frameworks and cloud-native tooling is enabling CSPs to migrate quickly to and scale in cloud environments. The adoption of AI is also stimulating operators to boost investment in telco cloud infrastructure.

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Telco Network and Service Automation Market Tracker Report – 2025

Annual report examining the telco network and service automation market, its status, trends, and prospects. Omdia has added the category of service management and orchestration (SMO), the foundation block of future RAN automation.

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Cloud Native in Telco Networks – Current State and Future Directions

This webinar explores Omdia's research on the current state of telcos in adopting cloud-native technologies for their networks. It will discuss the rapid transition from virtual machines (VMs) to containers and examine how public cloud solutions are facilitating the evolution of telco clouds.

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Telco Network Automation Survey Report – 2024

Omdia conducted a survey of 61 senior network engineering, R&D, and operations decision-makers within telecom operators in August–September 2024 to learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are approaching network automation, how far they are on their journey towards autonomous networks, and how they evaluate their efforts and the level of automation.

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Telco Network and Service Automation Market Tracker Report – 2024

This report examines the status, outlook, trends, and prospects in the telco network and service automation market. This edition focuses on the core network, exploring automated areas and activities and where they sit in the network layers.

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Telco Network Cloud Tracker – 2024 Annual Forecast Data

The report presents Omdia's estimates of annual spending by telecommunications service providers on the end-to-end cloud technology stack for delivering software-based network functions.

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