Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has become the first mobile operator in Southeast Asia to deploy AI-RAN (Artificial Intelligence Radio Access Network), partnering with Nokia and NVIDIA to integrate AI with telecom infrastructure. This deployment merges Nokia’s 5G Cloud RAN with NVIDIA AI Aerial, creating a shared computing environment for both AI and RAN workloads. The initiative, announced at MWC 2025, positions Indosat as a leader in AI-driven telecom innovation, enhancing network efficiency, spectral usage, and energy management. As part of its national AI strategy, Indosat is also establishing a ‘Sovereign AI Factory’ to support startups, enterprises, and government bodies in applying AI to sectors like healthcare, education, and agriculture.
A key component of this initiative is the AI-powered serverless API framework, developed with NVIDIA, which enables Indosat’s AI partners—Hippocratic AI, Personal.ai, GoTo, and Accenture—to deploy large-scale distributed inference engines. This collaboration allows Indosat to scale AI applications across its network, supporting a broader vision of AI integration in telecom. While the article primarily focuses on AI-RAN’s technical and strategic implications, it highlights how AI partnerships, including with Hippocratic AI, contribute to a nationwide AI-powered ecosystem. Indosat CEO Vikram Sinha emphasized that AI-RAN goes beyond connectivity, positioning the company as a hub for AI-driven innovation in Indonesia.