Europe giants to showcase continuum initiative at MWC26

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia and Vodafone plan to run a live demo of their joint European Edge Continuum at MWC26. The five operators have linked, or federated, their edge computing environments so customers and developers can deploy applications automatically across all their networks from a single entry point. The system is already running in lab and pre-production settings, with the companies positioning this as a step toward full industrial and commercial use.

The operators say the shared platform will let them spread workloads across different edge nodes, cut costs, keep services running as users move between networks, and maintain data sovereignty. They argue it extends each operator’s reach while keeping tighter integration with their own networks. At MWC26, they plan to show how organisations can run services on this joint infrastructure and test new forms of collaboration and business models. The next stage is to open the ecosystem to more partners and move to commercial rollout.