Google Cloud spent much of 2020 ratcheting up its focus on supporting telecom players’ computing needs, particularly when it comes to edge.
Part of Google Cloud’s strategy for serving telcos is developing solutions that the carriers can both use in their own business, and that they can sell to others, according to Amol Phadke, managing director of telecom industry solutions at Google Cloud. “The way we are looking at it as Google Cloud is, we really need to start to build technologies that serve both of those purposes,” he says. Each of its portfolio items “can be used both by our CSP partners and clients, and also by their end customers that they want to serve, whether that’s businesses or consumers.”
