The last 18 months have witnessed the explosion of interest in Gen AI creating a new momentum for discussions around AI in top-level announcements from CSPs in the Americas. A count was made of discussions involving AI in the report and accounts and 4Q23 investor calls from the 11 largest CSP – from some research […]
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This graphic summarizes an analysis of the press releases and other publicly available discussions from CSPs in the US, Canada and Latin America. 74 separate initiatives were collected and categorized – as part of research for TM Forum. The interest generated by new Gen AI models is evident, with a third of the announcements […]
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Research into the training priorities of telcos uncovered four areas of current focus:
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In recent work, 10 telco statements of intent around Responsible AI and ethical AI practices were analyzed. The results showed a balanced approach to the content of these statements – most likely because of the influence of government and international bodies, building consensus on areas that need to be considered. Describing the category areas, […]
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There are a diversity of requirements from private networks; typically falling into one of three types (as shown in the columns of the diagram below): the need to provide workers with connectivity support for autonomous equipment connection of sensors and content. But, these use cases then subdivide, each requiring somewhat different A3 capabilities – as […]
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Cloud economics is often tightly defined as “the financial analysis and optimisation of cloud resources within the context of decision-making on a particular workload deployment”. However, in reality, making longer term decisions on cloud deployment requires both economic analysis and multiple architectural, operational, and strategic choices looking out towards a mid-to-long term timeframe. Therefore, this […]
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Building a private network revenue stream is not straightforward for telcos, and they face many challenges. As shown in the diagram, A3 offers some solutions:
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The most striking thing about a self-healing network is its wide-ranging use of intelligence. The diagram shows that a telco will need to develop a range of new intelligence capabilities, alongside new data collection techniques and downstream automations. In recent research on automation, self-healing was identified as one of the last automations to mature in […]
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This research started by investigating the definition of self-healing because, although it is part of the Self-X terminologies within the TM Forum’s autonomous network project, it is often used to describe different functionalities within the network. At interview, there was a mix of enthusiasm for using the phrase “self-healing”, given that it is often interchangeable […]
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Bi-yearly research estimates the financial value of AI, automation and analytics (A3) through bottom-up analysis of potential capex/opex savings or revenue uplift from integrating these technologies into 60 processes/use cases across a telco’s network and OSS. This value is measured on an annual basis in dollar terms and as a proportion of total revenue for […]
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