India, Sept. 28 -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the network from infrastructure that connects people and applications into one that must increasingly connect intelligence. For India, this transition comes as 5G traffic grows, data centres expand, enterprises explore private networks, and telecom operators look towards automation and new ways of monetising their infrastructure.

Samar Mittal, India Country Business Leader at Nokia, believes that India's scale, technological talent, and experience with successive generations of mobile technology give it a strong foundation for this transition. In this interaction with Voice&Data Editor, he discusses India's AI infrastructure readiness, autonomous networks, 5G monetisation, hyper...