The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has extended the deadline for stakeholder counter-comments and comments for its recent discussion paper on leveraging opportunities around artificial intelligence (AI) and big data for the telecom industry.
In its discussion paper surfaced in early August, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) sought views on the opportunities and risks involved in leveraging AI and big data. It also covered the issues such as customer privacy and constraints in adopting these technologies. The regulator noted in the paper that the telecom sector could leverage AI and Bbig data in quality of service, spectrum management, and network security.
TRAI is now seeking comments and counter-comments by October 14 and 28, respectively, following requests from stakeholders for more time. It had initially demanded these submissions by September 16 and September 30.
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The TRAI paper noted that investment in AI and machine learning (ML) companies had increased sharply. Indian AI and analytics start-ups received US $1,108 million in funding in 2021, the highest ever funding received in seven years, with a year-over-year growth rate of 32.5%.
In its discussion paper, TRAI said that leveraging AI and big data would help telecom carriers to optimize network quality with more innovative detection and anomaly prediction, assisted capacity planning, and self-optimization to respond to changing conditions.
The paper also mentioned that with the rising adoption of smartphones along with the growth of mobile internet, telcos are required to access exceptional amounts of data sources. These sources include customer profiles, device data, call detail records, network data, customer usage patterns, location data, which combined, might become the Big data.
