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providers to talk to their data to provide insights and operational recommendations with closed-loop
automation.

Over the past years, service providers have been applying AI to their core mobile and wireline
networks, and will look at ways to deploy AI in RAN to dynamically manage frequencies, sectors and
base stations, improving efficiency, power consumption, and performance metrics. Similarly, gen AI
and AIOps are enabling predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis and smarter decision-making
with guardrails for privacy and compliance.

Laying the foundations for 6G
Service providers are taking a more pragmatic approach to the next generation of mobile
architecture (6G) with a focus on improving business outcomes. Defining 6G involves more than just
infrastructure — it requires the participation of a broader ecosystem of industry players, demanding
structural and cultural shifts across the value chain. This collaborative approach will be key to driving
innovation and ensuring the technology meets the demands of the future.

The growing telco industry ecosystem will focus over the next year on the following:
● What key aspects of 6G differentiate from 5G’s capabilities
● Distributed architectures with AI driven autonomous infrastructure
● Fostering new collaboration behaviors to accelerate transformation
● Open APIs to streamline multi-system interactions and offer new services
● Horizontal platforms to mitigate risk and improve operational consistency
● Evolution of network slicing with AI inference to enable intelligent connectivity
● Holistic sustainability as a core driver of next-gen networks
● Integrating all photonic and non-terrestrial network (NTN) technologies
● Exploring new use cases:
○ Immersive AR/VR/XR experiences
○ Precision positioning
○ Advanced autonomous vehicle (V2X)
○ Integrated sensing - situational awareness
○ Energy efficient IoT integration

Open source will play a pivotal role in addressing innovation, flexibility, unpredictability, and
independence in this rapidly evolving space. The road to 6G will focus on harnessing AI and
automation to unlock new data-driven services and meet ambitious sustainability goals. In our
increasingly disruptive world, the journey will require pragmatic, deliberate, and constant evolution
to differentiate and stand out from the crowd, while ensuring business value is delivered across
industries and geographies.

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