Google Cloud is seeking to be the avenue by which telecom companies both transform their own network capabilities and enable enterprises to do the same, with a combination of 5G, edge computing, and cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics.
Telcos have been trying for years to figure out how to replicate the success of cloud companies. Maybe the answer is to partner with them? Google Cloud’s announcement today looped in a number of major telecom players into a vision that it is calling the “Global Mobile Edge Cloud,” or GMEC.
