India, Nov. 19 -- New research from Accenture suggests that "data debt",caused by fragmented, inconsistent and poorly governed data, is hampering decision-making and slowing progress on the adoption of artificial intelligence across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) telecommunications sector.

According to Cracking the Code on Data Debt, 71% of APAC telecom executives say limited visibility across networks and portfolios delays decisions. Two-thirds report that staff spend more time cleaning data (66%) than analysing it (34%). Only 2% of respondents have an integrated data strategy that enables seamless, cross-functional data sharing.

A related study, The Front Runner's Guide to Scaling AI, indicates that only 21% of communications service provide...