While Vodafone touts the role of old-style network functions virtualization (NFV) in protecting its networks from collapsing under the weight of lockdown data traffic, other operators are already in the process of migrating to the newer cloud-native architectures, and the process of network functions cloudification (NFC). In general, for deployments of the huge scale of Vodafone’s, there are good reasons to use something tried-and-tested, despite its downsides (see separate item), but for those with the confidence to progress to NFC, the results may be more dramatic, and of course, there will be no need to engage in another major migration for many years to come. T-Mobile USA is not always a radical thinker in terms of the mobile network itself…