The Time Is Right For Network API Services
TelecomTV, Monday, July 3,2023
The telecom sector has been talking for years about digital services, open architectures, API-enabled business models and cloud-native processes, but there have been significant barriers to progress. Now, though, the digital service provider (DSP) technology and strategy stars have aligned and the era of network API services, along with new business models for progressive telcos, is upon us, according to Juan Carlos Garcia Lopez, SVP of technology innovation and ecosystem at Telefonica.
Garcia was co-host of the recent Why data and APIs are key to implementing the vision of the digital services provider session at the DSP Leaders World Forum 2023 in Windsor, and set the scene for the debate with an opening address, during which he argued that the significant progress made in the digitalisation (and exposure) of telco IT systems, based on specifications developed by telco-led industry body the TM Forum, had laid the ground for the digitalisation of communications network capabilities via common APIs.