Red Hat Expands Collaboration with Canada’s Largest Communications Provider to Accelerate Network Innovation

MWC Barcelona – March 2, 2026 —

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the expansion of its collaboration with Bell Canada. This multi-year agreement confirms a long-standing relationship between the two companies, which aims to deliver world-class networks while accelerating the pace of innovation through integration Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies enable customers like Bell to adopt a unified telco cloud infrastructure that strengthens operational agility while supporting enterprise predictability. With a consistent, scalable foundation supported by Red Hat, Bell can accelerate its 5G leadership and deliver high-performance services at scale.

An open hybrid cloud strategy

By establishing an open hybrid cloud that spans IT, networking and media, Red Hat’s solutions help customers:

• Modernize virtualized workloads by migrating traditional workloads to a dual base of Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
• Establish a foundation for digital sovereignty by maintaining ownership of data residency and infrastructure integrity across on-premise, cloud-based and edge environments.
• Extensive automation capabilities by using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Supporting citations

Gino Grano, Global Vice President, Communications Service Providers Americas segment, Red Hat
“Telecommunications has evolved into a high-stakes technology race. For our customers, including Bell Canada, leveraging a unified hybrid cloud foundation enables faster and more efficient evolution of next-generation 5G and network services. Red Hat continues to partner with service providers around the world and help them turn technical agility into market leadership, deploying next-generation services with speed and network efficiency.”

Mark McDonald, executive vice president and chief technology officer, Bell
“Expanding our collaboration with Red Hat underscores the confidence we place in their open hybrid cloud technologies to support the evolution of our networks, helping Bell deliver reliable, high-performance services and continue to innovate for our customers.”