Swedish operator Telia is building an autonomous network so that it can offer a new range of B2B services and has put autonomous vehicles at the fore of the business plan. Telia’s Head of IT Production, Vincenzo Procopio outlined the steps the operator is taking to build a fully autonomous network and the ensuing IT transformation at a recent OSS/BSS event hosted by Ericsson in Paris. Telia is on a journey to overhaul its product lines and remove legacy offerings. Key to this process will be autonomous network operations. Telia currently ranks itself at Level 3 on the TM Forum’s scale of autonomous networks. This is described as a partial autonomous network. The firm has a mid-term goal of level…