Frustration among operators over unfulfilled promises of the telco cloud have been simmering for at two years and have now boiled over for some. Orange has become one of the harshest critics, after Laurent Leboucher, group CTO at its Innovation Networks division, condemned the current state of the telco cloud as a “nightmare” during a keynote at the NGMN Industry Conference and Exhibition 2022 held in Paris in September. Leboucher accused the industry of allowing competition to create new silos as vendors sought to establish their own vertical combinations of hardware and software in complete contradiction to the original concept founded on virtualization, as was already well established in the non-telco world of enterprise data centers. This was denying operators…