Most of the world’s leading telcos are still locked in a seemingly endless stream of job losses that will culminate in halving their workforces in more extreme cases, such as AT&T and BT. While these might be bottoming out, they cheerfully attribute the losses to the automation dividend accentuated by machine learning, especially under the banner of Generative AI, they are also missing a trick. They are failing to adequately harness new technologies for new business opportunities and revenues, which has been a bugbear for 5G from the outset. Meanwhile equipment makers, such as Ericsson, have been blaming their own recent lackluster results on the failure by telcos to roll out 5G as quickly as they had hoped or predicted.…