An often discussed issue in Europe is whether the major European telcos might collaborate on building a cloud platform that would be optimized for their 5G and enterprise needs, and would be fully under their control rather than that of hyperscalers. This seems in the spirit of Europe’s Open RAN initiatives, which are taking on an increasingly Europe-first attitude to building a local ecosystem, and governments would presumably welcome a counterweight to the US giants’ power in the cloud once 5G becomes cloud-native. A project by Orange and integrator Capgemini, to build their own cloud, could even represent a first step towards such as project, though it has arisen in response to specific rules set out for France and its…