Kaan Terzioglu the CEO at Veon Group recently discussed the need for AI to available to everyone at MWC25 Doha. He went on to liken the importance of access to the technology to other household utilities.
Citing inspiration from policies seen in China, he endorsed the technology being included alongside electricity and water as a utility which should be available for all.
“Make sure that AI is in every household” and every handset, he urged attending regulators and executives.
Noting AI is “not artificial at all” and had been “the most wrongly worded technology in the entire decade”, he promoted the technology as “augmented intelligence: augmenting the capabilities, skills, of people, of our customers, offering them a better version of themselves”.
“There is no reason why the best teacher should not be living in Dhaka, the best surgeon should not be in Islamabad and it is us that can make this happen”, he said.
Highlighting Veon’s focus on expanding access to digital technologies across its markets, the executive outlined a need to make sure the cost of delivering healthcare and education “to millions is a fraction of what it costs today”.
He also noted applications in this area, alongside financial services and entertainment systems, would allow people to be “part of the digital economy”.
Terzioglu implored operators to use “every single technology that we have in our hands” to make this happen, pointing to the latest generations of mobile network technology and satellite.
The executive was speaking a day after its Kyivstar unit in Ukraine began offering direct-to-device connectivity, a deployment he noted during his keynote would be swiftly followed by use of the technology in Kazakhstan.
Source: Mobile World Live
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