In today’s industry news roundup: Sovereign AI firm @meetkai teams up with @VEONGroup for a ‘lab-as-a-service’ partnership in five countries; US senators file a bi-partisan bill, which will launch a self-certification platform for telco cybersecurity; @TMobile is expanding its deployment of intent-based #AI #automation application Autopilot; and much more! telecomtv.com/content/ai/wha… #telecom

Casa26 keynote highlights revenue opportunity from agentic AI: Telcos can capitalise on sticky infrastructure assets, reckons @McKinsey’s Ivan Ostojic. Network capabilities such as analytics and fraud detection could be money-makers in AI age - But telcos need to avoid pilot purgatory and focus their AI efforts, he stressed telecomtv.com/content/ai/mck… #telecom #AgenticAI #Casa26

Yariv Geller, co-founder and CEO at vHive, discusses how AI and digital twins are changing the way operators and towercos manage physical infrastructure. He explores the challenges of poor field data, how vHive captures and analyses site data, who owns the resulting digital twin and the economic benefits for operators — and much more. ▶️ Watch the full interview: telecomtv.com/content/ai/vhi… #DigitalTwins #Telecoms #FieldData #TeecomInfrastructure #5G #NetworkAPI #Software

AI investment still needs a business case — but who makes the case when the technology is still maturing? During the “AI-native strategies for the next 12 months” panel at The AI-Native Telco Forum 2026, @Deutsche Telekom’s Ahmed Hafez explored the challenge of turning AI ambitions into investments that can demonstrate tangible business impact. With agentic AI still developing, the discussion looked at the role of CEOs and technology leaders in backing the transformation, proving its value and moving promising initiatives towards scale. ▶️ Watch the full panel discussion: telecomtv.com/content/the-ai… Featuring: ⭐ Ahmed Hafez, SVP Network Strategy and Data & AI in Networks, Deutsche Telekom ⭐ Itsuma Tanaka, President & CEO, Docomo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH ⭐ Naresh Chouhan, AI Technology & Strategy Team, GSMA ⭐ Philippe Ensarguet, VP Cloud & Software Engineering, Orange ⭐ Sachin Verma, Chief AI and Data Officer, Rakuten Mobile #AINativeTelcoForum #Telecoms #AINative #TelecomAI #AILeadership

We’re delighted to welcome Marius Iordache, Member ETSI OpenOP Technical Steering Committee & Telco Cloud & Service Platforms Manager at @orange, as a confirmed speaker at this year’s Cloud-Native Telco Summit on 14 October. Marius will join a great lineup of thought leaders to discuss the strategies, challenges and real-world success stories defining the next phase of telco transformation. 👉 Sign up to watch the summit, take our poll and submit your question: telecomtv.com/content/cloud-… #CloudNativeTelcoSummit #APIs #Telecoms #CloudNative #TelcoPlatform #AInative @ETSI_Standards

Can AI be trusted if you can’t see what it’s doing? During the “Building the data and observability pipeline for full-lifecycle AI” panel at The AI-Native Telco Forum 2026, Melvin Rosario explored why observability needs to be considered from the outset as operators move towards more autonomous AI systems. It’s not just about knowing whether an AI workload is healthy, but being able to understand and trace its decisions, actions and impact. ▶️ Watch the full panel discussion: telecomtv.com/content/the-ai… Featuring: ⭐ Bob Dietrich, Director, Solutions Engineering, Wavelo ⭐ Melvin Rosario, Strategic Business Development Telecom, EMEA, Dell Technologies ⭐ Patrick Mercanton, Chief Marketing Officer, ETSI ⭐ Sachin Verma, Chief AI and Data Officer, Rakuten Mobile ⭐ Steve Daigle, Global Head of Telco Systems Engineers, HPE #AINativeTelcoForum #Telecoms #AINative #TelecomAI #Observability #AutonomousNetworks

In today’s industry news roundup: @libertyglobal teams up with #AI firm Sierra to deploy its conversational AI technology across its European operations; @TMobile follows in Verizon’s footsteps in applying for a licence to carry out testing in the 4.8GHz #spectrum band; Singapore could be set for consolidation after Keppel confirmed it is in talks to sell M1 to rival @StarHub; and much more: telecomtv.com/content/digita… #telecom

What if the path to AI revenue isn’t finding one killer use case? During the “Generating revenue from AI-native services” panel at The AI-Native Telco Forum 2026, Mavenir’s Dejan Leskaroski explored why operators may need a different approach to building AI revenue — testing multiple use cases, keeping the barrier to deployment low and accepting that not every idea will succeed. ▶️ Watch the full panel discussion: telecomtv.com/content/the-ai… Featuring: ⭐ Dejan Leskaroski, EVP, Chief Revenue Officer, @Mavenir ⭐ Patrick Lopez, Founder & CEO, Core Analysis ⭐ Yue Wang, Chief Technologist Next-Gen ICT, China Telecom #AINativeTelcoForum #Telecoms #AINative #TelecomAI #AINativeServices

Ready to scale AI across your network? 👉Join our panel discussion next Tuesday 29 September, as experts from @DellTech, @Intel5GNetworks and @SUSE explore what it takes to build an AI-ready environment – from high-performance infrastructure and cloud-native platforms to edge deployment, automation and lifecycle management. They’ll examine how operators can scale AI while tackling the practical challenges of complexity, data sovereignty and resilience – and where the priorities should currently lie. 🔗 Register now to watch the live broadcast and find out where these technology leaders believe operators should focus next: telecomtv.com/content/buildi… Featuring: ⭐ Melvin Rosario, Strategic Business Development Telecom, EMEA, Dell Technologies ⭐ Richard Card, Global Head of Telco, SUSE ⭐ Slawek Stawiarski, Telco AI Solutions Manager, Intel Corporation #AIFactory #NetworkAutomation #AInative #Sovereignty #CloudNative #DataManagement

We’re delighted to welcome Joel Studler, DevOps Engineer at @Swisscom, as a confirmed speaker at this year’s Cloud-Native Telco Summit on 14 October. Joel will join a great lineup of thought leaders to discuss the strategies, challenges and real-world success stories defining the next phase of telco transformation. 👉 Sign up to watch the summit, take our poll and submit your question: telecomtv.com/content/cloud-… #CloudNativeTelcoSummit #APIs #Telecoms #CloudNative #TelcoPlatform #AInative

Can telcos deploy agentic AI with the same approach they used for previous generations of network technology? During the “Deploying agentic AI in live networks” panel at The AI-Native Telco Forum 2026, Nokia’s Nabil Lahyani challenged operators to look beyond what agentic AI can do and ask what it delivers for the business — from measurable outcomes and TCO to the organisational and cultural changes needed to deploy it at scale. ▶️ Watch the full panel discussion: telecomtv.com/content/the-ai… Featuring: ⭐ Alessandro Arrichiello, Senior Specialist Solution Architect – Telco Center of Excellence, @RedHatTeco ⭐ Franz Seiser, VP, Tribe Lead, T-DAT, @deutschetelekom Technik ⭐ Nabil Lahyani, Head of AI & Use Case Factory, Autonomous Networks, @nokianetworks ⭐ Nico Marziliano, VP International Telco Sales, @WindRiver ⭐ Vasileios Theodorou, Chair of ETSI SDG OpenOP and Head of Research Collaboration, @IntracomTelecom #AINativeTelcoForum #Telecoms #AINative #TelecomAI #AgenticAI #AutonomousNetworks

In today’s industry news roundup: With device sales on the rise, Telefónica España has created a new division to handle all aspects of the device value chain for the telco’s Spanish operations; @Meta is still by far the largest vendor in the emerging AI glasses market, but there are plenty of new entrants, notes Omdia; Airtel Africa’s #fintech unit, which has been reporting impressive sales and earnings growth, is to become a listed company in its own right; and much more: telecomtv.com/content/access… #telecom #wearables @OmdiaHQ @airtelafrica

Samsung Electronics has signed contracts with South Korean telcos KT Corp. and @SKtelecom for their private network AI-RAN projects under the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)’s Hyper AI Network initiative that brings together network operators, technology vendors and other industry partners: telecomtv.com/content/ai/sam… #telecom #AIRAN @Samsung

What if telcos need to rethink how they turn AI-native capabilities into revenue? During the “Generating revenue from AI-native services” panel at The AI-Native Telco Forum 2026, Yue Wang explored how operators could combine connectivity, compute and orchestration to create new ways of packaging and monetising their capabilities. ▶️ Watch the full panel discussion: telecomtv.com/content/the-ai… Featuring: ⭐ Dejan Leskaroski, EVP, Chief Revenue Officer, @Mavenir ⭐ Patrick Lopez, Founder & CEO, Core Analysis ⭐ Yue Wang, Chief Technologist Next-Gen ICT, China Telecom #AINativeTelcoForum #Telecoms #AINative #TelecomAI #AINativeServices

We’re pleased to announce Gerardo de Blas, Chair ETSI SDG OSM (Open Source MANO) & Technology Expert at @Telefonica, as a speaker at this year’s Cloud-Native Telco Summit on 14 October. Gerardo will join a great lineup of thought leaders to discuss the strategies, challenges and real-world success stories defining the next phase of telco transformation. 👉 Sign up to watch the summit, take our poll and submit your question: telecomtv.com/content/cloud-… #CloudNativeTelcoSummit #APIs #Telecoms #CloudNative #TelcoPlatform #AInative

What does AI-native transformation look like when AI starts taking action autonomously? During the opening keynote on day one of The AI-Native Telco Forum 2026, Rakuten Mobile’s Chief AI and Data Officer Sachin Verma shared how the operator is using AI to improve RAN energy efficiency, achieving almost 20% energy savings across the network. ▶️ Watch Sacha's full keynote: telecomtv.com/content/the-ai… #AINativeTelcoForum #Telecoms #AINative #TelecomAI #NetworkAutomation #RAN

In today’s industry news roundup: @Meta is working with subsea network builder and optical fibre maker Sumitomo Electric to build the world’s first petabit capacity subsea network; the European Commission proposes a common energy usage rating scheme for #datacentres; T-Mobile US and Reliance Jio enable what they say is the first #5G standalone (5G SA) roaming service; and much more: telecomtv.com/content/access… #telecom @EU_Commission @reliancejio

What does AI-native transformation look like when it solves a very real customer problem? During the opening keynote on day two of The AI-Native Telco Forum 2026, Ohad Barnoy, VP and head of GenAI and data services @Amdocs shared the example of PLDT and Smart in the Philippines, where StoreAI helped reduce customer waiting times by 80%, without adding thousands of new employees. ▶️ Watch Ohad Barnoy's full keynote: telecomtv.com/content/the-ai… #AINativeTelcoForum #Telecoms #AINative #TelecomAI #GenerativeAI

In the latest example of a telco developing new revenue-generating, AI-enabled, network system-based applications, @VodafoneGroup and vendor partner @ericsson have successfully demonstrated two new customer-centric voice services on a test #mobile network: telecomtv.com/content/ai/vod… #telecom #voiceservices

Orange and @Telesat have launched a new teleport gateway in France. The Bercenay-en-Othe site will support Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO constellation. @Orange will integrate Lightspeed into its international wholesale offering. The Partnership is built on the ‘shared DNA’ of the two companies, says Orange exec: telecomtv.com/content/access… #telecom #satellite