The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (‘TRAI’) on 5th August 2022, has published the Consultation Paper on ‘Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Telecommunication Sector’. The Consultation paper presents use cases of artificial intelligence (‘AI’) and Big Data in areas such as quality of service (QoS), spectrum management and network security.
It has been noted that 5G and beyond networks will provide a plethora of data that may be useful for telecom as well as other sectors. Edge computing in the 5G era may offer opportunities to other sectors to train, validate and run their AI models in the telecom networks. 5G and beyond networks may also offer privacy preserving architectures to adopt and accelerate AI and BD in other sectors.
The paper covers opportunities and risk in adoption of AI and BD such as unethical use, bias in data and algorithms, privacy, model instability, regulatory and legal non-compliance. Ways and mechanisms to mitigate risks have also been covered. It also suggests managing risk as a design principle.
The paper also cites the idea of operator platform in future networks that may serve as an access point to external applications providers for accessing network and service capabilities. Operator platform concept may play a key role in fostering the development of new services and solutions that make full use of 5G capabilities. Such a platform may also provide capabilities to operators to federate and offer edge computing as a unified service.
This consultation paper seeks inputs from the stakeholders on various issues related to leveraging AI and BD in the telecom sector and facilitating other sectors. Written comments on the consultation paper are invited from the stakeholders by September 16, 2022. Counter-comments, if any, may be submitted by September 30, 2022. The comments and counter-comments will be posted on TRAI’s website: www.trai.gov.in.
The comments and counter-comments may be sent, preferably in the electronic form to, Shri Asit Kadayan, Advisor (QoS) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, on email: advqos@trai.gov.in.
