The neXt Curve reThink Podcast

Analysts Insights from TM Forum DTW Ignite 2025 (with Dean Bubley and Patrick Lopez)

The neXt Curve reThink Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail TM Forum Digital Transformation World (DTW) Ignite 2025 is one of the leading telco tech conferencesfocused on OSS, BSS and customer experience modernization. Some call it digital transformation but not Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis, who joined Patrick Lopez of {Core Analysis} and Leonard Lee for a recap of the event this year. This year, DTW Ignite was heavily slanted toward the topic of autonomous networks and reaching L4, but there was much more. The trio conver...

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