GSMA and ITU sign Letter of Intent to accelerate trusted, open AI for telecoms

GSMA Chief Regulatory Office John Giusti and ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin sign a Letter of Intent at MWC Doha, setting out a framework for the two organisations to further their collaboration on the GSMA’s Open Telco AI, pictured alongside Seizo Onoe, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau.

The Letter of Intent brings together the UN agency for digital technologies and GSMA to help accelerate the adoption of telco-grade AI across network operations, infrastructure and standards; build telecoms-specific data assets for model training and inference; and train, deploy and evaluate the OTel family of open-source models. 

The collaboration also plans to help operators, vendors and standards bodies develop their own models, agents and benchmarks, support mutual members on AI use cases and collaborate on AI competitions to stimulate innovation in telecoms. In parallel, the ITU and GSMA intend to further align global technical standards, promote open data interoperability and develop shared evaluation frameworks, with the aim of supporting secure, transparent and high-precision AI across global networks.