1Finity: operators should build AI-RAN where a customer is already paying

Rob Hughes, head of wireless marketing at Fujitsu's 1Finity, told the Intelligent RAN Forum that today's RAN performance gains alone don't justify AI-RAN investment. He advises operators to start with deployments that already have a business case and a paying customer, reselling idle RAN compute for enterprise AI workloads.

• Hughes: RAN performance gains alone don't justify AI-RAN capex
• Operators should start where a paying customer already exists
• RAN is built for peak capacity, leaving compute heavily underutilized
• Policy-driven orchestration must prioritize the network, then partition and bill