5G has long been described as the first generation of cellular born in the cloud. While that’s a reductive statement, operators are moving network functions and operational processes into the cloud, there’s a heavily-debated question: Which cloud; public, private or both? Discussing the operator’s plans for hosting network functions in the cloud, Verizon Vice President of Technology Planning and Development Bill Stone was clear that Big Red’s network will reside in a private cloud that Verizon fully controls.