{"id":189257,"date":"2026-02-20T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/telcos-double-down-on-ai-as-90-report-positive-returns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:20:11","slug":"telcos-double-down-on-ai-as-90-report-positive-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/telcos-double-down-on-ai-as-90-report-positive-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos Double Down on AI as 90% Report Positive Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/telcos-double-down-on-ai-90percent-report-positive-roi\/\">Telcos Double Down on AI as 90% Report Positive Returns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/telcos-double-down-on-ai-90percent-report-positive-roi\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/telcos-double-down-on-ai-90percent-report-positive-roi\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 15:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Prioritization of Internal Operational Improvements:<\/strong> Telecom operators are finding stronger returns from AI-driven network automation and internal process optimization rather than customer service chatbots.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Network Automation as Major ROI Driver:<\/strong> With about half of respondents identifying network automation as the leading AI use case for ROI, AI&#8217;s applications like predictive maintenance and traffic optimization are becoming strategic focal points.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Emphasis on Internal Efficiency:<\/strong> Internal process automation, such as fraud management and billing reconciliation, is delivering higher immediate returns and cost savings due to AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Autonomous Network Vision on the Horizon:<\/strong> Despite incremental challenges, most operators expect to see AI-native autonomous networks before the introduction of 6G, aiming towards self-configuring, self-healing, and self-optimizing networks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telcos Double Down on AI as 90% Report Positive Returns https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/telcos-double-down-on-ai-90percent-report-positive-roi\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-20 15:51:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/telecommunications-AI-digital-transformation.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189259,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189257\/revisions\/189259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}