The ‘B2AI’ question: are telcos ready to sell trust to machines?
Special Report #4/4: Longer term, telcos believe AI agents could become a major new source of demand for network APIs, extending their business beyond user authentication and fraud prevention.
This article includes:
- Organisations: Aduna; Alipay; AT&T; CAMARA Project; CPaaS Acceleration Alliance (CPaaSAA); Deutsche Telekom; Ericsson; GSMA; Liberty Global; Linux Foundation; Magenta API Capability Exposure; Nokia; Orange; Orange LiveNet; Substack; Telefónica; TM Forum; Vodafone Group.
- Geographic: China; Germany; UK.
- People: Alexandra Reichl; Andrew Collinson; Anthony Bartolo; Chathurangi Wickramasinghe; Dean Bubley; Eurekia Cosey; Henry Calvert; Houda Bostanji; Otilia Anton; Sebastian Barros.
- Themes: 5G network slicing; Agent discovery; Agent-to-Agent protocol (A2A); Agentic AI; AI agent verification; AI agents; AI decision-making; API aggregation; API commercialisation; API consumption; API exposure; API interoperability; API standardisation; Attestation; Authorisation revocation; Autonomous networks; Autonomous onboarding; Autonomous operations; B2AI; B2B; B2C; Banking; Branded calling; Broadcasting; Caller identification; Communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS); Connected vehicles; Customer authentication; Decision engines; Device management; Device Swap API; Device trust; E-commerce; Enhanced connectivity; Enterprise automation; Factory equipment; Fraud prevention; Internet of Things (IoT); Joint ventures; Logistics; Machine verification; Model Context Protocol (MCP); Network as Code; Network data monetisation; Network effects; Network Exposure Platform; Network performance; Open source; Payments; Presence signals; Product development; Proofs of concept; Quality-on-demand (QoD); Real-time network signals; Revenue cannibalisation; SIM Swap API; Spam prevention; Subscriber identity; Trust prediction; Turbo; Value capture; Video assurance.
- Events: FutureNet World.
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