Gareth Price

Recent projects includes helping a North European operator Group to quantify the value of increased automation, AI and autonomy in the network to help plan and justify the AN investments for the group leveraging their existing AI capabilities and new open solutions like SMO. Another project helped an operator to apply Agentic AI to their day to day operational context in the Transport domain.

Previously he and his colleagues have helped operators such as Telstra, Telefonica, Vodafone and TIM to assess the CAPEX and OPEX impact of telco cloud transformation using advanced and vendor agnostic proprietary models. He has also led several industry leading NFV/SDN CTO driven Target Operating Model engagements, redesigning the organization, processes, performance management, governance, competence and partner models for an agile and automated 5G network. This will enable these operators to unlock the potential of 5G cloud native core through agile service creation and deployment, closed loop automation, service-centric organization and many other capabilities over several carefully planned transformation horizons.

Prior to Ericsson, Gareth headed Marketing, Innovation and Strategy for Telecoms at NEC Europe, led international product marketing for Telecoms at NEC Corporation in Tokyo and led NEC’s internal consulting department in the European labs. Previously he worked with Defense, Investment Banking and Mobile Telecoms clients for Logica in the UK and Ireland.