Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 1/26/22 7:10 AM, Tom Beecher wrote:
>     For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of
>     direct operational control.
>
>
> Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when 
> the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to 
> anticipate because it's all black box.
>
> Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18 
> months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to control.
I think for the vast majority of cloud users they'd do a way worse job 
at uptime than the providers. Whether that applies to some telcos, I'm 
not sure.

Mike