As Boost Mobile has learned, service providers have to understand, “Where does AI bring value to the business and where does it not?” “As we were designing the network originally…one of the precipice things that I put in place is that we had to have ownership of all data,” McSchooler said. Boost’s cloud-native 5G network was built with data acquisition from the RAN, core and other network domains in mind. “Where does AI bring value to the business and where does it not?” Agentic AI begins with knowing what data matters, who controls it and what business outcome it is supposed to serve.