Gavin McDougall, Senior Solutions Architect for Sub-Saharan Africa at Red Hat, says Open in the telco context is about much more than just open software, encompassing open standards, open interfaces, open ways of working and more.

“Traditionally, telco services providers built their networks from network components that were often proprietary and siloed in nature. Being difficult to modify, this made them inflexible, something at odds with modern digital transformation strategies,” he says.