A recent survey from Chinese BSS provider AsiaInfo, in collaboration with Telecoms.com, found that 71% of operators are ready to deploy cloud-based business support systems (BSS), but 62% have concerns about data privacy and security issues as a barrier to moving BSS to the public cloud. The report analyzes results from 300 qualified operator respondents, and of the 71% of respondents who claim they are ready to deploy cloud-based BSS, 18% said they have already deployed it, 13% are in the process of implementing, 14% will deploy by the end of 2016, and 26% by the end of 2017. These impressively high figures show that public cloud operators and telcos are moving closer together after having traditionally kept their distance…