Telecoms.com Podcast Mavenir, AI and BT
May 27, 2025
Brandon Larson, who leads product development for AI solutions at Mavenir, dives deep into the transformative role of AI in telecommunications. He discusses how AI can enhance operational speed and reduce manual processes while acknowledging the ethical concerns of over-reliance on technology. The conversation touches on BT's recent announcements and highlights the need for cultural change in adopting new telecom innovations. Amidst intriguing insights, they also explore the implications of AI on the workforce and the complexities of prompt engineering in the industry.
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LLMs Need Telco Expertise
- Large language models (LLMs) lack deep, experiential telco knowledge and struggle with recent or domain-specific facts.
- Training AI to think like a telco domain expert is critical for meaningful industry applications.
Bridge Telco, Cloud, Data Science
- Meld telco, cloud, and data science languages to communicate effectively across teams.
- Bridging these domains is crucial to developing innovative telecom products and solutions.
Telco Cloud Evolution Focus
- Telco cloud evolution has gone through hardware offloading, virtualization, NFV, to containers.
- The key challenge is operational transformation with declarative automation, not just containerizing workloads.