Iain Morris

1 week ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

AI is giving rise to new and more sophisticated security threats, say BT's Howard Watson and Vodafone's Scott Petty, and there is concern about its impact on jobs. It is mid-morning at BT's headquarters, and an unscheduled Teams call is made by someone who appears to be Allison Kirkby, the UK telco's CEO, to one of her senior employees. The Scottish accent bears the same timbre. On screen, Kirkby's shoulder-length blonde hair sways convincingly as she tilts her head.

1 week ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

Enthusiasm for artificial intelligence in telecom hit fever pitch at Digital Transformation World's giant greenhouse in Copenhagen. What could possibly go wrong? Sweat trickled down the necks of the ageing executives gathered inside the Bella Center, a giant greenhouse in Copenhagen, landscape-gardened by the TM Forum for its annual Digital Transformation World (DTW) event. Last year's keynote presentations took place in a darkened auditorium to the side.

1 week ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

Networks that require minimal human input may take shape from next year, according to Nokia's Rahgav Sahgal. The ability to drive a car may in future seem as quaint as operating a handloom does now. Everyone who enters a vehicle will conceivably do so as a passenger whose active role is limited to specifying the destination. A fully autonomous, self-driving car should be capable of the rest. The same is true of the telecom network.

1 week ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

Ericsson's portfolio of business and operational support systems has been given a comprehensive AI makeover thanks partly to AWS. Alexander the Great was an early pioneer of intent-based operations. Around 330BC, the Macedonian ruler conquered lands stretching from Greece to India with an army of about 50,000 human agents. His genius lay partly in his ability to give unambiguous orders or prompts, clearly specifying the desired outcome (rout these bothersome Persians), to a well-structured model.

1 week ago | lightreading.com | Iain Morris

A debt-for-equity swap keeps Mavenir alive but with a much narrower focus outside the market for open RAN radios. Any lingering hopes that Mavenir could establish itself as a competitive US manufacturer of radio units for the world's 5G networks have been quickly extinguished. In a dramatic but not totally unexpected move, the company is to quit hardware production after struggling to land contracts in a radio access network (RAN) market still dominated by Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia.