Is AI taking over telecoms? Or is it just a tool? With Azita Arvani

2025-09-04

AI is here to stay and will become more pervasive with time. But how will it penetrate telecom networks and organizations? Azita Arvani and I explored this question along multiple dimensions. Is it going to be centralized or at the edge? Do we need GPUs at the edge? How quick should the transition from AI as a tool to AI-native networks be? How will sovereignty shape the adoption of AI? How aggressively should we push AI adoption? Should we wait until it gets to a more mature stage? Are we over-investing...

AI is here to stay and will become more pervasive with time. But how will it penetrate telecom networks and organizations?

Azita Arvani and I explored this question along multiple dimensions. Is it going to be centralized or at the edge? Do we need GPUs at the edge? How quick should the transition from AI as a tool to AI-native networks be? How will sovereignty shape the adoption of AI? How aggressively should we push AI adoption? Should we wait until it gets to a more mature stage? Are we over-investing in it?

We don’t have final answers (and nobody does), but we shared our perspectives.

Azita just finished a paper, “Beyond Connectivity: Telecom's AI-Driven Future in 5G-Advanced” in collaboration with Mick Etoh at the University of Osaka, that covers in more detail what we discussed in the Sparring Partners.

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