Rethinking Telecom Partnerships for a New Era of Growth

Airline credit card partnerships now generate more profit than the flights themselves, in some cases several times over. Every major U.S. carrier runs a co-branded credit card program built on similar swipe-fee mechanics. Why isn’t telecom capturing the same returns?

On this week's Zero-Touch Live, Rakuten Symphony's Anshul Bhatt speaks with Boost Mobile's Dawood Shahdad, SVP of Hybrid MNO Network, and Sruthi Nair, Director of Voice Core Engineering, about building one of the few operator networks running fully cloud-native on public cloud.

On this week's Zero-Touch Live, Rakuten Symphony’s Sachin Mahajan spoke with Mauricio Gonzalez Nappa, head of the telecom vertical at LATAM system integrator Isbel, which supports tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 operator OSS, BSS and RAN deployments. They dove into what is happening on the ground as operators across the region pursue autonomous network ambitions, explore AI use cases to offset low ARPU and reassess the role of Open RAN.

Telcos have spent years optimizing compute and networking for cloud-native architectures. But the data and storage infrastructure underneath those systems were traditionally built for archival and regulatory compliance versus the real-time demands of autonomous operations and AI workloads.