This Week: Microsoft Azure for Operators Shakeup, Carlos Slim buys part of BT

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss Microsoft's Azure for Operators shakeup, as well as Carlos Slim's new interest in a European telecom.

00:30 Microsoft to quit Affirmed and Metaswitch

02:20 Comparisons to Google

03:31 Microsoft is usually more persistent

06:09 Predictions for virtualized cores and cloud for telco

06:59 Carlos Slim takes a stake in BT

08:52 Predictions for BT

Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don

Kellogg, Roger Entner, Microsoft, Azure for Operators, Affirmed, Metaswitch,

Etisalat, Dish, Amazon, Google, Deutsche Telekom, Cisco, AT&T, vCPU, cloud

for telco, Carlos Slim, TracFone, BT