The Telco Edge Cloud (TEC) Pre-Commercial Trials Foundry project aims to bring the industry together to collaborate around a number of pre-commercial trials of Telco Edge Cloud capabilities with app developers and service providers sponsored by the industry partners and supported by MNOs.
The potential for Independent software vendors (ISVs) is a pilot opportunity with at least two operators in a pre-commercial trial in the second half of 2021. In doing so, generate proof points and promote the benefits of using Telco Edge Cloud infrastructure to stimulate the development of a wider ecosystem. We want to find beacon use cases that are best served by TEC and share the learnings from the trials with the TEC community via the GSMA TEC Forum.
The project also aims to help in the Iteration of the Operator Platform and TEC requirements by providing results and feedback.
Foundry Project participants include:

The GSMA is coordinating the execution and promotion of Telco Edge Cloud pre-commercial trials in 2021, in its new Foundry initiative. If you are interested in joining, please email us at tec@gsma.com.
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The GSMA Telco Edge Cloud Trials Workshop Launches, with 13 Mobile Operators & over 20 companies promising exciting Use Cases for the Telco Edge
Friday 11 December, 2020 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | TEC Trials
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MWC22 Barcelona Spotlights: GSMA Foundry
Thursday 12 May 2022 | 5G Video Series | GSMA Foundry | MWC22 | Resources | Telco Edge Cloud |
Henry Calvert, Head of Networks at GSMA explains why members and partners across the ecosystem should get involved in the GSMA Foundry and an update on current TEC collaborations including how Edge can help customer and enterprise experiences.
MWC22 Barcelona Spotlights: Telefónica
Thursday 12 May 2022 | 5G Video Series | MWC22 | Resources | Telco Edge | Telco Edge Cloud |
Juan Carlos Garcia, SVP of Technology Innovation and Ecosystems at Telefónica join us to explain why the Telco Edge Cloud Forum is of value to the operators and mobile ecosystem, the latest TEC Trials and the importance of collaboration.
MWC22 Barcelona Spotlights: Summit Tech
Thursday 12 May 2022 | 5G Video Series | All Projects | MWC22 | Operator Platform | Resources | Telco Edge Cloud |
Doug Makishima, CSMO from Summit Tech shared updates on the latest company developments in TEC and Operator Platform, the importance Edge computing and Telco collaboration in MEC.
TEC Forum Open Session Catch Up
Monday 22 Nov 2021 | 5G Video Series | Resources | Telco Edge | Telco Edge Cloud |
TEC Forum members, operators and platform providers joined the TEC Forum Open Session to hear from key players in the industry including MobiledgeX, STL Partners, Summit Tech, Telefonica and many more.
MWC21 Los Angeles – Edge Summit
Monday 1 Nov 2021 | 5G Video Series | MWC21 | Resources | Telco Edge | Telco Edge Cloud |
From MWC21 Los Angeles, explore edge’s unique ability to process data in an intelligent way that delivers practical benefits to huge groups of people across the globe.
KDDI, Deutsche Telekom and partners demonstrate next generation AR mobile app experience in alignment with GSMA TEC initiative
Tuesday 26 Oct 2021 | 5G Video Series | Resources | TEC partner spotlight | Telco Edge | Telco Edge Cloud |
KDDI Corporation, Deutsche Telekom AG, MobiledgeX, Sturfee and Mawari have jointly developed a mobile application proof of concept to demonstrate an augmented reality (AR) application leveraging remote ...
Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and MobiledgeX optimise user experience for Continental’s Collision Warning solution
Thursday 9 Sep 2021 | Resources | TEC partner spotlight | Telco Edge | Telco Edge Cloud |
An industry-first demonstration of a managed interconnection of the Telco Edge Cloud assets of two operators at one location, as Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and MobiledgeX enable an optimised user experience for Continental’s Collision Warning use case.
BT and Telefónica demonstrate the aggregation capability of the Telco Edge Cloud
Tuesday 6 Apr 2021 | 5G Video Series | Resources | TEC partner spotlight | Telco Edge | Telco Edge Cloud |
Telefonica and BT demonstrate the aggregation capability of the Telco Edge Cloud to deploy a drone orchestration application on their combined footprint.
5G Video Series: Telco Edge Cloud (Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, MobiledgeX)
Monday 6 Jul 2020 | 5G Video Series | TEC partner spotlight | Telco Edge Cloud |
The GSMA Telco Edge Cloud (TEC) is a unique initiative to create and launch a global edge computing service that will enable developers, enterprises and others to deliver services globally from the edge of federated ...