Network Automation

How AT&T is testing the waters with network APIs

AT&T's Stephanie Ormston is working to test out the market for network APIs (application programming interfaces). So far she's offering four such APIs, but hopes to expand that in the future.

Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies

May 23, 2024

AT&T has begun investing into the network API (application programming interface) opportunity.

Stephanie Ormston, AVP of digital services integration, is spearheading the operator's efforts in the area. Today, she said AT&T offers four different network APIs to gauge the use and interest in such offerings.

But she said the operator is working to expand the figure, including via APIs that adhere to the GSMA's Open Gateway effort as well as APIs that are exclusive to AT&T.

And what of the revenues AT&T hopes to derive from those APIs? That's still under debate, Ormston said.

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Mike Dano

Mike Dano

Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading

Mike Dano is Light Reading's Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies. Mike can be reached at [email protected], @mikeddano or on LinkedIn.

Based in Denver, Mike has covered the wireless industry as a journalist for almost two decades, first at RCR Wireless News and then at FierceWireless and recalls once writing a story about the transition from black and white to color screens on cell phones.

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