Agentic AI is the latest magic potion for telcos, and especially their infrastructure vendors, in pursuit of that elusive Level 5 network autonomy. It has become a major competitive frontline as the key vendors sweeten their BSS and OSS portfolios with agentic AI sauce, usually with the added ingredient of a hyperscaler. Announcements on this front by the Nordic duo clashed last week with quite similar rhetoric about taking another step on the path to full automation with the help of “agentic driven” operations and actionable intelligence. Ericsson just got in first with its announcement on June 16th, 2025, of a collaboration between its Cognitive Network Solutions (CNS) division and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the hyperscaler collaborator to apply…