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Kenmei Announces Strategic Collaboration with Microsoft to Accelerate Autonomous Networks and Agentic AI for Telecom Operations

Matteo Gasparello
March 2, 2026

[Valencia, 2 March 2026] —Kenmei today announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to help telecom operators accelerate the journey toward autonomous networks using agentic AI and a modern cloud data platform.

Through this partnership, Kenmei’s solutions are built on Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Fabric to work with large volumes of multi-vendor network data and support advanced analytics and AI-driven decision support.

Rather than adding yet another layer of dashboards, the solution focuses on helping network teams understand what is happening in the network and decide what to do next, with less manual analysis and fewer handoffs between tools.

By combining Kenmei’s telecom expertise with Microsoft’s cloud, data and AI platform, operators can move away from reactive, dashboard-driven operations and toward proactive and autonomous ways of working across network planning, optimization and troubleshooting.

Kenmei’s telecom solutions are already being adopted by leading telecom groups, including Telefónica and e&.

For network teams, the solution helps:

  • understand where performance degrades and why;
  • identify the root cause of issues without relying on multiple tools;
  • support planning and optimization decisions using existing network data.

This collaboration strengthens the ability to scale these initiatives using Microsoft’s cloud, data, and AI platform, while allowing operators to extract more value from the data they already collect.

“By combining Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Foundry with Kenmei’s deep telecom expertise, our collaboration will help operators accelerate their journey toward more autonomous, data-driven network operations,” said said Rick Lievano, Worldwide CTO, Telco, Media & Gaming at Microsoft.

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Kenmei is the intelligence behind mobile networks.
By turning raw network data into operational intelligence, the company helps mobile operators see more, understand faster, and act with confidence across complex mobile networks.
Learn more at www.kenmei.ai

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