The Big Telco AI Challenge - The Right Data For The Right Use Case
RCRWirelessNews, Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
Google Cloud sees telco AI 'absorption rate' as an 'incredible phenomenon'
Communications service providers (CSPs) are all-in on AI; makes sense given macro issues around a lack of effective network monetization despite a massive capital outlay which is putting pressure on automation as the primary path to opex reduction.
The recommendations from the vendor side, as CSPs embark on what's likely a decade-plus long AI-enabled network and operational transformation, is to focus on use cases which themselves hinge on data, and make incremental technology decisions while bearing in mind the holistic goals. And that doing those things successfully will require a larger ecosystem than operators are accustomed to cultivating and managing.