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Telco in 20 Featured Guest Shkumbin Hamiti Nokia

Podcast

Ep 120 – The $300 billion question: Can telcos monetize network APIs? (Shkumbin Hamiti)

21 July 2025 - Nokia's Shkumbin Hamiti explains why building a developer community is crucial for telcos that want a piece of network APIs' $300 billion revenue potential.

TelcoDR Summer Reading List 2025

Blog

TelcoDR’s Summer Reading List 2025

15 July 2025 - Catch up on 2025’s best content about becoming an AI-first telco, breaking free from legacy vendors, monetization, and how to get started with AI.

Telco in 20 Featured Guest Harrison Lung E And

Podcast

Ep 119 – The 4 strategic imperatives turning Etisalat into tech company e& (Harrison Lung)

7 July 2025 - e& Chief Strategy Officer Harrison Lung explores the big strategy discussions in telco, new AI opportunities, and the discipline needed to drive transformational change.

Blog

AI is crushing the BSS vendors

1 July 2025 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is crushing the BSS vendors, but most telcos haven’t even noticed. It’s time to stop buying BSS like it’s 1999.

Telco in 20 Featured Guest Mallik Rao Telefonica Germany

Podcast

Ep 118 – Telefónica Germany moves the network to the public cloud (Mallik Rao)

23 June 2025 - Mallik Rao from Telefónica Germany explains how the operator became the first brownfield operator to migrate its 5G core to AWS—a breakthrough the entire telco industry has been waiting for.

Blog

Why your AI strategy isn’t working

16 June 2025 - Stop treating AI like enterprise software, wasting months on RFPs while models evolve at lightning speed. Instead, start with expensive pain points, build small solutions in production, and iterate daily.

Telco in 20 Featured Guest Dr Lester Thomas, Vodafone

Podcast

Ep 117 – Vodafone’s new rules with open APIs, cloud-native, and AI (Lester Thomas)

10 June 2025 - Dr. Lester Thomas explains how Vodafone is leveraging TM Forum standards and building a modular, AI-ready technology foundation.

Blog

AI will cost jobs, lots of them. Stop lying about it.

3 June 2025 - Major US telcos have cut over 140,000 jobs since 2019, yet executives still won't admit AI's role. Dishonesty destroys productivity and trust when transparency could create competitive advantage.