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- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
AI reality bites as just 2% of Asia-Pacific telcos claim live agentic operations
Ahead of Innovate Asia 2026, TM Forum research shows APAC telcos are yet to scale AI from innovation into core enterprise environments that unlock opportunities for autonomous growth
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- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Governance
TM Forum takes AI trust from promise to proof at world-first industry Hackathon
TM Forum's Trustworthy AI Hackathon delivers world-first advancement in engineering trust into autonomous operations
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- Autonomous networks
TM Forum launches reusable blueprints to accelerate Level 4 autonomous networks
Twenty industry-developed Technical Solution Packages give carriers and vendors a standards-aligned route to cut design time, reduce integration risk and scale autonomous networks
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- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
TM Forum launches industry initiative to enable trusted AI autonomy in collaboration with Accenture
TM Forum teams with Accenture to deliver the industry’s first Trustworthy AI Governance Certification.
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- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- IT transformation
Innovate Americas 2026: Legacy IT is blocking Americas telcos from turning AI into growth
TM Forum research finds 88% of CIOs across the Americas say legacy IT lock-in is holding back new customer value, commercial impact and the race to autonomous enterprise
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- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- 5G
- Autonomous networks
Architecture to autonomy: registration opens for Innovate Asia 2026
1,200+ telecoms industry leaders to convene in Bangkok for Asia’s leading AI and Autonomous Networks event, focused on accelerating the autonomous enterprise
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Nobody woke up wanting eight billing systems
Nevash Pillay, Databricks, and Idilio Moncivais, Lumen Technologies, joined TM Forum's Guy Lupo at Innovate Americas 2026 in Dallas to talk about what it actually takes to build trusted AI — and what happens when you get it right.
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From autonomous networks to an autonomous world
Ankur Kapoor, EVP and Chief Network Officer at T-Mobile, met with with TM Forum CEO Nik Willetts at Innovate Americas 2026 in Dallas to talk about what comes after autonomous networks — and what the industry needs to face up to before it gets there.
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Governance is not a feature. It's the whole job.
Guy Lupo caught up with Romit Ghose, ServiceNow, at Innovate Americas 2026 to challenge a few assumptions about AI trust and explain why the architecture most enterprises started with didn't survive contact with reality.
Autonomous networks won't be built by AI agents alone
Following NGNM's latest report, Andy Tiller argues that the industry's biggest obstacle to autonomous networks isn't smarter AI, it's getting AI to work together.
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Five takeaways from the AI-Native Telco Forum
TM Forum's Joann O'Brien joined an AI-Native Telco Forum panel in Düsseldorf to tackle the question: how can AI innovations move safely and economically into production at scale?
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AI-native networks: A conversation with Kim Krogh Andersen
The AI era is raising the stakes for telecom networks. Telstra's Kim Krogh Andersen and TM Forum CEO Nik Willetts discuss what it actually takes to get ready - and why the industry can't afford to wait.
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Vodafone Egypt’s CX leap proves architecture is now a growth weapon
At DTW Ignite 2026, Gartner’s Maryam Minhas joined Vodafone Egypt’s Ayman Fathy and TM Forum’s Joann O’Brien to discuss how AI-native architecture and CX drive growth and agility.
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Trust is not a feature. It's the foundation.
AI’s value depends on trust. Accenture’s Arnab Chakraborty and TM Forum’s Guy Lupo explore how telcos can operationalize trustworthy AI at scale.
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Tokenomics: The AI cost challenge telcos can't afford to ignore
AT&T is running 40 billion tokens on an average day. Six months ago, it was 5 billion. Mark Austin of AT&T talks about what that scale demands and what the industry needs to do about it.
500 Professionals Certified: A Milestone for the Autonomous Networks Movement
A major milestone for the AN movement, demonstrating growing industry skills, standards and momentum as CSPs accelerate the journey from automation to Level 4 autonomous, AI-driven operations.
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Self-healing networks and the race to level four: what Verizon and Google are building together
Nik Willetts talks to Google Distributed Cloud and Verizon about using temporal digital twins turn AI ambition into AN reality
Scaling Telco AI from Ambition to Reality
GSMA’s Louis Powell and TM Forum’s Andy Tiller highlight a new collaboration to help the industry reduce fragmentation and accelerate practical telco AI adoption.
Sovereign AI - the winners will lead on trust, says TM Forum
Sovereign AI will be made real by controlling the enforcement layer that governs how AI behaves in motion – across every interaction, in real time.
The AI-native telco is here. Your next move matters.
The telecom industry faces a fundamental choice: evolve into AI-native operators capable of competing in an era of sovereign AI and hyper-personalized services - or get left behind by organizations that will.
Empowering Digital Economies Through Standardised, Scalable Frameworks and TMF Open APIs
TM Forum’s Wholesale Broadband Project is creating global standards and Open APIs to enable scalable, digital-first wholesale broadband services and accelerate open connectivity.