Id argue that the telco industry tried, and failed, as opposed to not trying at all. ATT for example sent a boatload of people on training from Georgia tech, in

Id argue that the telco industry tried, and failed, as opposed to not trying at all. ATT for example sent a boatload of people on training from Georgia tech, invested massively in automation... and couldn't pull it off. I also blame the industry for missing the point on the whole pivot to virtualization. For those of you not in telco, telcos got together in 2012 and said, "how can we be more nimble like the cool kids?" and concluded that virtualizing everything, was the way to go, as if all it took was a vm and a k8s pod. Really it was about culture and supply chain, but that's a whole other story.