There is a burgeoning trend for 5G operators to form close alliances with cloud majors, specifically to enhance their offerings for enterprise sectors, and to improve their business case to deliver those services. Many operators have limited strategic presence in enterprises, providing packages of devices, minutes and megabytes but not much more. 5G gives them the opportunity to move up the value chain as many industries start to look for specialized, high quality connectivity to support their own transformations. But this requires deep investment in indoor coverage by the telcos (see Special Report), and the business case can be hard to make. That is where the scalability enabled by deploying the networks on public or managed cloud platforms can be…