Looking at the opportunities to implement Generative AI, the diagram below has 3 rows: Near-term use cases that are likely to be more mature and useable in the next few years A mix of more complicated/more nascent use cases. Some longer term use cases and those which are likely to be less impactful (Some use […]
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Making decisions around what NEF functionality to implement is complicated by the variety of potential use cases. Analysis suggests that the categories below are most viable. The order of the categories are shown in rough order of their expected popularity – with practical services for a telco’s enterprise customer first on the list; alongside services […]
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The 3GPP Network Exposure Function (NEF) provides a platform to allow secure interaction of external platforms and applications with the core network. It allows extraction of data from the network and allows applications owned by customers and partners to provide a limited set of instruction into the network. Its successful roll out is caught up […]
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Looking at the digital twins deployed today by telcos, today – they can be categorized in two areas: Importance: The potential financial upside to a telco The degree of need for problem resolution that the DT could bring Feasibility: The complexity of DT creation The maturity of DTs deployed already in other verticals Availability of […]
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The four groups of telco products in Part 1 of this post, could potentially be offered to all types of vertical customers – but there is obviously a high degree of complexity about exactly what each customer might need and what products are most feasible for a telco to provide. In order to create a […]
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Over the last 12 years, discussions around telco activities in the data provision and related ecosystem have been around the provision of aggregated/anonymized data about telcos customers coming from the BSS systems, augmented with location data from the network. This is beginning to change with discussions from vendors about the need for data from the […]
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Based on recent conversations with telcos and vendors, interest in NWDAF appears to have had a small uptick since 2021. However, it is often just a small part of a bigger RFI/RFP. The drivers and barriers towards adoption considered to be:
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What is a data driven organization? There have been many case studies over the last 5 years which demonstrate the disruption caused by “data-driven businesses” – using insights to change business models, understand customers, automate processes and drive new revenues. Into the future, this concept will become an integral part of what it takes to […]
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The diagram below sets out product development trends seen across assurance. It is a summary of topics discussed at vendor interview when asked about what they were currently creating and selling in 5G assurance – it is a mix of: existing products those on the roadmap discussion of problems which will require future assurance products […]
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This diagram provides a very speedy summary of how Future of Work trends will impact a telco (it would be worth reading the previous post before this one – for context!):
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