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Buying a telco is the easy part. At Fastweb + Vodafone, the deal came with 350 to 450 systems, plus tens of thousands of network nodes. Two of everything, and only one of each survives. Here’s the part most acquirers miss. For the length of an integration, you are the customer every vendor is afraid of. Two billing contracts, two CRM contracts, two SIs. That is the most leverage you will ever have over your suppliers. Most acquirers use it to renegotiate a rate. The permanent version is deciding which vendors you no longer need at all. Max Gasparroni, chief technology and security officer at Fastweb + Vodafone, is making those calls right now. Part of his synergy target comes from work he’s taking back from outside suppliers. Max joins Telco in 20 this week to walk through the integration. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/g4mhdJs3/?utm_campaign=Telcoin20%257CPodcast%257CVideo&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=746816363&hsa_acc=514749377&hsa_cam=746816363&hsa_grp=383852493&hsa_ad=1595135153&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #telecommunications #AI

How do you stop your AI from making stuff up? With the Totogi Ontology. This week, I’m back on the Telecoms.com podcast with Scott Bicheno and Iain Morris, and it’s also this week’s Telco in 20 podcast episode. We break down what an ontology is and why a telco’s AI can’t run without one. We also get into whether Scott could vibe-code a Salesforce clone in an afternoon, why “clean your data first” is a five-year detour telcos can’t afford, and what changes with 6G, the first G with AI in the room. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/eWuvDGg9/?utm_campaign=Telcoin20%257CPodcast%257CVideo&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=746816363&hsa_acc=514749377&hsa_cam=746816363&hsa_grp=383852493&hsa_ad=1584676913&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #Telecommunications #Ontology #AI

6G is the first G with AI in the room. The question isn't whether you'll use it. It's whether you 𝘤𝘢𝘯. Your AI can see the traffic on every tower. It can't see the money—what each cell actually earns. And that's the number the 6G decision turns on. This week on Telco in 20, I share my keynote from TelecomTV's AI-Native Telco Forum in Düsseldorf: what AI needs to see before you write the biggest check of the decade, and what one operator is already doing about it. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/gn3577eU/?utm_campaign=Telcoin20%257CPodcast%257CVideo&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=746816363&hsa_acc=514749377&hsa_cam=746816363&hsa_grp=383852493&hsa_ad=1572558603&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #Telecommunications #6G #AI

Does your telco have transformation capacity? That's the bottleneck with AI. It's not a tech problem; it's a culture problem. Microsoft thinks it has an answer. To help telcos out, it has created the Microsoft Frontier Company: forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) working inside enterprises until AI is live and the customer's team can carry it forward. This week on Telco in 20, I sat down with Kevin Shatzkamer who leads the Telco & Media Engineering Studio for the new group. We dig into what actually limits AI inside a telco, how the Frontier model works, and what Microsoft needs from operators that it can't build itself. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/ex6vxVUr/?utm_campaign=Telcoin20%257CPodcast%257CVideo&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=746816363&hsa_acc=514749377&hsa_cam=746816363&hsa_grp=383852493&hsa_ad=1558185913&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #Telecommunications #FDE #Microsoft

To G, or not to G. That is the question. Every operator will need an answer sooner than they think. Mobile data traffic is growing about 20% per year, and the spare capacity 5G bought won't last. By the end of the decade, the options get stark: add capacity, throttle your users, or lose share to a better network. This week on Telco in 20, I sat down with Dell'Oro Group's Stefan Pongratz, who has spent 16 years tracking when operators jump to a new G. Now he's watching the runway to 6G. We dig into what boardrooms weigh before green-lighting a new G, why waiting works only until a competitor shows results, and why the odds that this G is more than just another G have never been higher. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/eiCnU6CD/?utm_campaign=Telcoin20%257CPodcast%257CVideo&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=746816363&hsa_acc=514749377&hsa_cam=746816363&hsa_grp=383852493&hsa_ad=1531300793&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3 #Telecommunications #6G #DellOroGroup

What does it take to lead in AI in telco? Guy Daniels, chief strategy officer and content director at TelecomTV, has spent the past year finding out. He's built the AI-Native Telco Index—the first evidence-based report on telco AI adoption, and a centerpiece of ANTA, TelecomTV's new accelerator program. On this episode of Telco in 20, Guy and I get into what the Index reveals, which operators are pulling ahead, and the gap that's left to fill. Listen now 👉 https://lnkd.in/erhfrZNP #Telecommunications #AI #TelecomTV