CSP Giants Form Global Telco AI Alliance
TelecomTV, Thursday, July 27,2023
Strengthening its position at the heart of the all-important AI-native telco debate, Deutsche Telekom, along with e&, Singtel and SK Telecom, has emerged as one of the founding members of the Global Telco AI Alliance, which aims to 'accelerate AI transformation of the existing telco business and create new business opportunities with AI services.'
- Four major network operators have formed the Global Telco AI Alliance
- Deutsche Telekom, e&, Singtel and SK Telecom are the founders
- The agreement includes the development of a telco AI platform
The formation of the alliance comes only weeks after Deutsche Telekom's VP of technology strategy, Ahmed Hafez, co-hosted the DSP Leaders World Forum 2023 session entitled Creating a framework for the AI-native telco, during which he noted that to take advantage of the potential benefits of AI, the industry needs to figure out a way to evolve from being opportunistic to becoming AI-native - see Towards the AI-native telco.