TM Forum : Latest Updates and Key Insights

AI-RAN Goes Live, Agents Get Guardrails: AI & Automation Insights, October 2026

Tech News & Insight
October 31, 2026
Hema Kadia

October 2026's roundup: AI-RAN gains move from the lab onto live networks in London, New York and Germany, operators scale agents into the thousands, regulators and industry bodies set rules for autonomous agents, and telcos work out where they fit in physical AI.

Agent Containment Becomes an Operational Discipline: Securing AI That Acts on Its Own

Tech News & Insight
October 29, 2026
Hema Kadia

Recent incidents involving long-running AI agents, a pause in frontier model development and new tools from NVIDIA, Red Hat and Doxx.net show agent containment becoming an operational discipline. TeckNexus maps the layers of AI agent containment, explains why telecom networks sit at the centre of the effort, and sets out the practical controls that matter most.

From Pilots to Agent Fleets: What Running 1,000 AI Agents Actually Takes

Tech News & Insight
October 26, 2026
Hema Kadia

Orange Spain's 1,000-plus agents, Fujitsu's 100,000-licence Copilot rollout and AT&T's 1,100 AI use cases show the challenge has moved from building agents to running fleets of them. TeckNexus examines the new agent management tools, the economics of agent fleets, the trust and governance push led by TM Forum, and a seven-point scale-up checklist.

Agents Go National: AI & Automation Insights, September 2026

Tech News & Insight
October 5, 2026
Hema Kadia

September 2026's roundup: Verizon, T-Mobile US and Telstra run AI across national networks, AI-RAN moves into national contracts and field results, the economics and portability of AI agents come into focus, and agent safety moves from principles to working controls.

Autonomous Operations for Private Networks: What Enterprise Networks Can Borrow From Telco Autonomy

Tech News & Insight
October 1, 2026
Hema Kadia

Enterprise private 5G networks face the same operational complexity as mobile networks, with far smaller teams. This analysis explains how enterprises can borrow from telco autonomy, including TM Forum autonomy levels, 3GPP intent-driven management and network analytics, Open RAN intelligence and zero-touch automation, and sets out a staged roadmap adapted to operational environments.

Network Operations AI Agents: Architecture, Use Cases and the Control Loop Behind Them

Tech News & Insight
September 11, 2026
Hema Kadia

Network operations AI agents, however they're marketed, run on a common sense-decide-act control loop. This guide breaks down the architecture, examines a real closed-loop assurance deployment, and explains why multi-vendor coordination between agents is a harder and more consequential architectural problem in telecom than in most other enterprise AI environments.