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Rya Young Sang, CEO of South Korean Telecom telecommunications, said CNBC that AI helps telecommunications companies to increase efficiency in its networks.
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Barcelona – Global telecommunications firms talk about success in key technologies such as artificial intelligence when they seek to move from perception as “silent pipes” by the Internet.
At the Barcelona Mobile World Congress conference, heads of several telecommunications companies told how they raise money in new technological innovations, including AI, 5G and 6G next generation, satellite internet and even smart cities.
Makat Takahas, President and CEO of Japanese Telecommunications Vogak Kddi. Elon Musk Starlink Venture.
Ralph Mapita, CEO of MTN’s largest mobile network operator, also performed on stage to share how much success has made to become a company that offers both wireless and Fintech services, such as payments, e -commerce, insurance, lending and redirect.
“The Telco’s business has served us well. It has been triggered since then. But the future is the future of platforms,” Mupita said in his main conversation, adding that the company aggressively invested in other areas such as streaming mass media and financial services.
From “silent pipes” to “Techcos”
Some Lingo, which collected Steam in Telco over the past couple or The phrase “Techco”, Portmanteau the words “Telco” and “Tech”.
The term refers to the idea of Telco, which works more as a technology company that invests in advanced technology and offers consumers digital services to help them make money from the significant capital costs they have allocated to upgrade their wireless networks.
For two decades technical giants such as Meta. Google. Amazon. Apple. Microsoft and Netflix Be flowering in a world where content can be delivered directly to people’s devices, consumers can communicate with each other freely, and data can be stored or broadcast on the Internet without possessing bulky infrastructure – all thanks to internet, smartphones and clouds.
However, these innovations violated the business -model of telecommunications firms, before they are often perceived as outdated players who are just there to lay cables and other network infrastructure that allow you to connect to the Internet.
It is a dilemma that earned Telco brands, the term “silent pipes”.
“I remember early in this area, even before the mobile internet, when SMS was a killer app,” said Hatem Dowidar, CEO of the E &, said in a major speech at MWC. “We used to earn profits from messages. We used to receive income from voting.”
“All this over the years has been broken by players, to the point that many telecommunications around the world are reduced to pipe packages that are just receiving networks,” David added. “And the competition does not remain motionless. They have a scale, they have an investment to go and thwart further.”
Telcos covers AI
Ru Young Sang, CEO SK TelecomThe Arjun Kharpal CNBC told that the South Korean telecommunications giant turned to AI Technology to help her increase her wireless network’s efficiency – something that was consistently shown on the stands of many Telco operators on MWC.
“There are two AI aspects for Telcos. One-like user, the second-producer,” said Young Sang. “As a user, you are a business -bizness, you can improve the efficiency of your network, marketing and customer service using AI technology. You can improve your own activity.”
“Another aspect – AI can become a growth engine, a new business opportunity for Telcos,” he added. Data centers, premises offering the computing power required to launch AI generative applications, such as Chatgpt, is another key area where Telco, such as SK Telecom, can play a key role, said Young Sang.
In the Western World, the construction of data centers is mainly the which is predominantly dominated by cloud computing giants – or “hyper” – such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. However, according to the CEO of the firm, SK Telecom aggressively expands the data centers.
Can Telcos catch up with technology?
For many analysts, the telecommunications industry, a chatter about Telcos, who seek to turn themselves into technical players, is not completely new – companies in this area have long known that their relevance in communications and media is decreasing.
Kester Mann, Consumer Director and Connect to the CCS Insight Market Study, said CNBC that while he is not a big supporter of the term “Techco”, this is what the industry continues to focus and collected the pace in the context of AI BOOM.
“AI can affect so many areas … And obviously it plays this trend around Telco to TechCo and operators who position themselves more than just a connection provider,” MAN said.
According to Nik Willetts, TM CEO, the so -called “autonomous networks”, or networks that can be managed and fastened with limited human supervision, is an area that quickly gains craving in the field.
“Autonomous networks are the movement that we see incredibly quickly passes from theory to reality, due to the achievements of AI in combination with the new level of ambitions and actions in the industry,” Willetts said.
This technology “can unlock step-by-step change and capital, enhance EBITDA and free cash flows, as well as unlocking new income opportunities and so necessary improvements in customer experience,” he added.
Jeetu Patel, Chief Director -IT Networking Giant CiscoHe said he sees how telcos plays a vital role because AI raises demand for network traffic and bandwidth.
“The reality is this: the appetite of the bandwidth network will increase with AI geometric progression,” said the CNBC. “Today, 100% of our labor is a man. Tomorrow you will have strengthening agents of II, robots, humanoids, many marginal devices.”
“These agents will be more chatty and they will require more network traffic and bandwidth,” he added. “I think the service providers play a significant role. In my opinion, the opportunity has not disappeared for them.”
