From FierceWireless:
A lot of people did a double take when hearing for the first time last week that AT&T is shifting its mobile network traffic over to be managed by Microsoft Azure. It will start with AT&T’s 5G core.
In turn, Microsoft is getting access to AT&T’s intellectual property. Microsoft is actually acquiring AT&T’s carrier-grade network cloud platform technology, which is what AT&T’s 5G core network runs on. Some AT&T employees presumably will be moving to Microsoft, which is making job offers to some. Read more on Microsoft’s perspective here. For AT&T’s outlook, Fierce Wireless talked with SVP of Engineering and Operations Igal Elbaz, who took time out during a warm (holiday, for some) week to answer a few burning questions about AT&T’s relationship with Microsoft.
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AT&T will continue to operate its network. The thing that’s different is rather than continuing to develop the software that runs on the cloud network, AT&T will hand that over to Microsoft for operations and development. Anything on top of it, like network functions and service creation, stays with AT&T, and nothing changes there, Elbaz said.
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