Are AI tokens the future?

Jio Platforms group CEO Mathew Oommen, warned that the landscape for service providers is likely to become radically different as India attempts to use 5G and AI to transform the nation into a technology powerhouse.

The executive expects AI to cause major disruption to operators’ business models and predicted some would fare better than others as the technology shifts the focus from call minutes and data rates to tokenisation.

“Some operators will embrace the future and be successful. Others will struggle”, he said. Oommen believes the change in approach is obvious, making it “imperative we define and redefine the entire telecom investment requirement”.

“When you look at the infrastructure expenditure that is happening in the world, over $3 trillion will be going into AI this year. And of that, about $810 billion is just from a few of the hyperscalers”.

But the executive added AI is “not an upgrade cycle”: instead, the technology is a total reset of operators’ economic and business cases, opening the door to trillion-dollar use cases which all rely on the “telecoms layer”.

The Jio Platforms specialist said building infrastructure at scale enables “intelligence at scale”, making the question more about how operators can “become the fabric of that” and control tokens.

Government goals

Indian Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia expressed an ambition to use AI and 5G to spur the digital economy, a target he said would require networks which are intelligent, resilient and inclusive.

“It is incumbent upon us to recognise that the choices that we make are going to be what will drive how millions of people across our planet learn, trade, speak, create and connect with each other”.

Like Oommen, the minister expects AI to move the telecoms sector away from pure connectivity and “into a living system of cognition”.

He called on operators to build networks which are more responsive to enable real-time transactions, and which can adapt themselves to meet quality of service and maintenance requirements.

India aims to help shape the next generation of communications to deliver societal benefits and ensure broad coverage so no-one is excluded from the digital economy.

Additional reporting by Paul Rasmussen

Source: Mobile World Live

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