Telecoms must re-invent itself — and agentic AI holds the key
Telecom operators face a business model that no longer works. Large office footprints, high staff turnover, rising recruitment costs, frustrated customers and mounting security threats all push against already thin margins. Traditional ways of running networks and service operations are slow, manual and expensive, leaving providers stuck reacting to problems instead of preventing them.
The argument for agentic AI is straightforward: use software agents that can act, not just analyze, to overhaul how telecoms work. These systems can monitor networks, flag issues, trigger fixes, and handle many routine service and support tasks that now sit in call centers and back offices. By automating repetitive work and tightening up security and operations, agentic AI offers telecoms a path to cut costs, improve reliability, and rebuild a sustainable model for the next decade.
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