AI Strategies for Network Operators

• Network Operator Landscape: Evaluation of the state of the network operator industry globally, identifying key challenges, business models and key opportunities for technologies, including:
  • 5G & Edge Computing
  • Serverless Infrastructure
  • AIaaS (AI as a Service)
  • Omnichannel Communication & Chatbots
• AI for Network Operators Use Case Analysis: Evaluating how network operators will leverage AI solutions in the future, with comprehensive focus on 6 key use cases that will drive revenue gains and cost efficiencies, including:
  • Fraud Detection & Mitigation
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Network Optimisation & Virtualisation
  • Customer-facing Technologies
  • Sales & Marketing Performance
  • Learning & Development and Workforce Productivity
• Interviews: 3 case studies of market-leading AI analytics vendors; assessing how the largest network operators today leverage AI for network optimisation, sales performance, customer experience improvement and other revenue-boosting use cases. These include:
  • Hitachi Vantara
  • Avora
  • Groundhog Technologies
• Benchmark Industry Forecasts: Provided for global operator spend on AI solutions across 8 key regions, and aligned with a detailed analysis of future development.

1. How will emerging technologies, such as 5G, affect operators’ strategies for AI adoption?
2. What is the AI-enabled revenue opportunity for operators over the next 4 years?
3. What will the value be of operators’ spend on AI solutions by 2024?
4. How are leading AI vendors globally serving network operators?
5. Which geographic regions are expected to have highest growth rate for network operator investment in AI solutions by 2024?
6. What will the most prevalent AI-driven monetisation use cases for operators be in emerging and developed markets in 4 years’ time?

Interviewed: Avora, Groundhog Technologies, Hitachi Vantara, Infobip, Interop Technologies.
 
Case Studied: Avora, Groundhog Technologies, Hitachi Vantara.
 
Mentioned: Amazon, Apple, BEREC (The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, Bharti Airtel, BSNL, China Mobile, Chunghwa Telecom, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Etisalat, EY, Facebook, FCC (Federal Communications Commission), Google, Haptik, Huawei, Hulu, Indosat, Line, Microsoft, MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Netflix, NTT Docomo, O2, Ooredoo, Optus, Orange, Rakuten, Reliance Jio, Robi, Salt Mobile, SingTel, Skype, Sprint, STC, Telefonica, Telkomsel, T-Mobile, Viettel, Vocord, Vodafone, WeChat, WhatsApp, YouTube.
 

Juniper Research’s AI Strategies for Network Operators forecast suite includes:
 

• 4-year benchmark forecasts for key metrics by 8 key regions:
  • North America
  • Latin America
  • West Europe
  • Central & East Europe
  • Far East & China
  • Indian Subcontinent
  • Rest of Asia Pacific
  • Africa & Middle East 
•  Country-level splits including:
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • UK
  • US
• Forecasts for network operators spend on AI services including:
  • Average Network Operator Spend on AI per Mobile Subscriber per Annum ($)
  • Total Network Operator Spend on AI per Annum ($m)
• Access to the full set of forecast data of 6 tables and over 540 datapoints.
• Interactive Excel Scenario tool allowing users the ability to manipulate Juniper Research’s data for 5 different metrics.

Juniper Research’s highly granular interactive Excels enable clients to manipulate Juniper Research’s forecast data and charts to test their own assumptions using the Interactive Scenario Tool and compare select markets side by side in customised charts and tables. IFxls greatly increase clients’ ability to both understand a particular market and to integrate their own views into the model.