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MWC Barcelona: March 2-5, 2026

See the latest Red Hat news and announcements from MWC, kicking off March 2, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.

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Red Hat Extends Collaboration With Canada’s Largest Communications Provider to Accelerate Network Innovation

Red Hat and Bell Canada reinforce shared commitment to delivering world-class connectivity for customers. This multi-year agreement affirms a long-standing relationship between the two companies, aimed at delivering world-class networks while accelerating the pace of innovation by integrating Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory Bring Scale, Sovereignty and Control to Production AI

Telenor has chosen Red Hat’s cloud-native and AI platforms to power its sovereign AI Factory. This latest Telenor AI Factory offering provides high performance hardware and innovative AI models while maintaining national control over data and processes. With this collaboration, Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory intend to make it faster and easier for organizations to realize AI business value by smoothing the flow from AI blueprints to actual production.

Telefónica Brazil Modernizes IT Cloud Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift to Massively Boost Operational Efficiency

Telefónica Brazil, the leading telecommunications company in Brazil, has migrated its business-critical service bus IT production environment from legacy virtualization to Red Hat OpenShift. This strategic shift provides the telco with an agile, scalable foundation for its IT-specific workloads, resulting in a 99% reduction in resource scaling time and a 95% reduction in storage consumption.

Vodafone Oman Continues Techco Transformation with Red Hat 

Since launching operations in 2021, Vodafone Oman has grown rapidly, surpassing one million subscribers on its 5G network. To sustain this momentum while maintaining its asset-light operating model, Vodafone Oman is transitioning its virtualized workloads to a high-performance, cloud-native architecture powered by Red Hat.

Red Hat Drives Telefónica Spain’s Network and IT Transformation with Red Hat OpenShift as its Common Platform

Telefónica Spain is standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift as the common platform for its IT workloads and cloud-native network functions (CNFs). As part of this standardization, Telefónica is also integrating Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift to modernize its virtualized infrastructure on a unified foundation. This strategic shift allows Telefónica to streamline management across disparate environments, enabling both virtual machines and cloud-native applications to run side by side while retaining the architectural agility to rapidly scale 5G and edge services. 

Open innovation in telecommunications

Red Hat’s open source technologies and wide-ranging partner ecosystems are transforming innovation in the telecommunications sector. Learn how companies like Verizon, Globe Telecom, and Turkcell are using Red Hat® OpenShift® to build modern, efficient networks and accelerate their 5G transformations. Discover success stories showcasing improved deployment times, network operations, and productivity.

Open innovation in telecommunications

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