The AI-Native Telco - In Conversation With Rakuten Symphony
RCRWireless New, Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
With all the talk of AI-native telcos, it's important to remember that to be AI-native, first you have to be cloud-native. What does that mean?
It means there are very few operators that are cloud-native, so their perspective on being AI-native isn't necessarily grounded in current reality. That said, there are a few cloud-native operators, so for perspective on AI-native, maybe best to talk to them. So we did. RCR Wireless News caught up with Rahul Atri; Atri was a managing director with Rakuten Mobile, left for Tech Mahindra, and rejoined Rakuten Symphony as a managing director and president of the OSS business.
The Rakuten Symphony stand in Barcelona, and our conversation with Atri, was sort of a microcosm for Rakuten. It's all about fast. Think fast, talk fast, do fast. Which is pretty well the point of this idea of AI-native-get data fast, use AI to parse it fast, turn it into action fast.