While the industry remains in the early stages of AI adoption, experts from Nokia, Rakuten Symphony, Red Hat and Appledore Research discuss some of its more immediate benefits, such as 25% energy-efficiency gains and significant improvements in spectral efficiency and signal detection. They emphasise that AI RAN should be viewed as a revenue-generating platform rather than just an efficiency tool, enabling new services, such as integrated sensing and physical AI through AI-native cloud foundations.

Recorded March 2026