The three pillars of the AI-network evolution

The telecommunications industry is entering its most significant shift yet: the agentic era. We’re moving beyond siloed automation tools toward a fully agentic ecosystem that can automate entire workflows.

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona this week, we’re announcing the integration of Nokia’s Network as Code (NaC) platform with Google Cloud’s optimized agentic AI stack, to transform from network APIs into a fully agentic ecosystem. This delivers AI agents to telecommunications companies that can autonomously observe, program, and optimize the network through natural language and goal-oriented task automation.

To meet the demands of the agentic era, the relationship between AI and the network is shifting from a "connected" model to a "deeply integrated" one. This evolution is unfolding across three distinct fronts:

• The autonomous network: The network is transitioning from a manually managed utility to an autonomously orchestrated system with AI embedded directly into its control ...