10+ hour, 22+ min ago   (390+ words) A few months ago, I was hired by a U.S. telecom operator to study a very specific question: what will “Generation AI” mean for telecom over the next five years? The work was not about how Telcos should deploy AI in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (461+ words) Sebastian Barros Newsletter Telcos, Musk is coming for Voice How Grok Voice, Starlink and AI agents could pull the value of enterprise Voice away from Telcos, one workflow at a time. Three operators on three continents moved on AI Voice…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) Last week I sat in a meeting between a Tier One telco and one of the frontier AI companies to discuss partnership opportunities. The AI model company quickly moved the conversation to enterprise distribution. Sadly, the telco’s immediate proposition was…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (173+ words) Every telco wants AI agents. Marketing wants one to reduce churn. Care wants one to resolve complaints. Finance wants one to optimize investment. The NOC wants one to find root causes. RAN wants one to optimize performance. There is only…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1110+ words) Over the past few weeks, I have been doing some soul-searching regarding telecom network automation. If you have read my recent LinkedIn posts, you know I am constantly looking for the line between actual operational reality and the endless stream…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (194+ words) The telecom market is not a place to prove you are right. It is a place to make money. Being right about the technology and being profitable on the investment are separate skills; a lesson worth remembering as the AI…...