How AI is being embraced by mobile phone networks

Apple was the most recent mobile phone company to declare last week that it will be integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the operating system of its devices.

Known as Apple Intelligence, it attempts to make phones faster and easier to use. It is also included in the Siri chatbot on the phones. and enhance Siri's role as a personal assistant.

It comes after Google's Gemini AI for its Pixel smartphones and Samsung's Galaxy AI.

Because AI is being used more often, phones will be performing a lot more computation, which will result in a lot more data being produced and used by them. The UK's O2, EE, Vodafone, and Three mobile phone networks will be under increased pressure as a result.

The use of AI to manage mobile phone networks has grown significantly and is now widely used worldwide. AI-enabled network monitoring has made it possible for Korea Telecom to locate and solve problems in South Korea in under a minute, according to Alex Sinclair, chief technology officer of the GSMA, an organisation that represents international mobile carriers.

In the meantime, AT&T in the US uses AI algorithms that are predictive and have been trained on billions of prior network warnings to tell it when anything is likely to go wrong.

AI digital twins, which are virtualised digital copies of real-world hardware like masts and antennas, are being used by other operators, like Vodafone, to reguarly monitor network performance.

AI is also being used to improve storage space and control the energy consumption of ever-larger data centres in order to keep their computers cool.

Telecom companies throughout the world are also investing in so-called 5G Standalone mobile networks due to the explosion of data that results from the growing usage of AI. Instead of partially depending on improving the outdated, less effective 4G system, these make use of brand-new, specialised 5G infrastructure.

Significantly faster and more capacity is provided by 5G Standalone. However, other experts think that even this more advanced technology won't be enough to meet the demands of the AI future.

For instance, several experts claimed that AI won't be able to realise its full potential until the deployment of 6G starting in 2028 during this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Even while mobile users often only become aware of the network when something goes wrong, they are far more conscious of bad customer service and the harm it can do to a brand's image.

(Sources: bbc.co.uk)