The campaign to generate revenues by exposing mobile networks to developers and potential customers through network APIs depends on reaching critical mass. For operators, this means collaborating more closely with peers in other countries and even rivals within their own markets to enable API based services on a large scale. Technology and equipment vendors meanwhile must oil the wheels and help their telco customers package their capabilities attractively for developers in the first instance. Such capabilities revolve around QoS and SLAs, bringing in 5G network slicing, as well as security and authentication to minimize user friction without increasing risk. Nokia claims to have taken a significant step forward with the launch of its Network Exposure Platform, which it insists is…