Red Hat Extends Cloud-Native Reach Across Multiple Telecom Providers
Cloud Native Now, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Red Hat, this week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 conference, revealed that a number of providers of telecommunications services have opted to adopt its platforms to build and deploy cloud native software for both internal operations and external-facing applications.
Telefonica Spain, for example, is standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift as the common platform for its IT workloads and cloud-native network functions (CNFs). It is also integrating Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift to modernize its existing virtual machine infrastructure
At the same time, Telefonica Brazil has migrated its service bus IT environment from legacy virtualization to Red Hat OpenShift, while Telenor, a telecommunications service provider in Finland, has selected Red Hat platforms to build an artificial intelligence (AI) factory based on frameworks from NVIDIA.