Talk of monetizing 5G was rife at Ericsson’s OSS/BSS conference in Paris last week, but this time the discussion was more rooted in reality than has been the case in recent years. Ericsson conceded that data growth rates are slowing, and this can no longer be relied on for income opportunities. Instead, MNOs should offer tiered products, such as QoS slices and access to GenAI applications, if they can beat the device makers to it. Perhaps nowhere in the world has a tougher fight for operator revenues than Western European, where they have raced each other to the bottom in providing the cheapest data packages and have nowhere left to go. The same can be said for the Indian operators which have some of…