Mobile Infrastructure Firm Cornerstone Adopts AI to Boost UK Rollout
Mobile infrastructure company Cornerstone (CTIL), which was originally established as part of a UK network sharing agreement between O2 (Virgin Media) and Vodafone (Vantage Towers), has today become the latest network operator to adopt Vyntelligence’s AI technology (Agentic Video Intelligence) to speed up the roll-out of new masts and cut costs.
Regular readers might recall how rural broadband ISP Gigaclear recently became the first UK retail fibre provider to adopt some of Vyntelligence’s AI technology, which is helping them to improve customer installation journeys by reducing unnecessary work (here).
Now Cornerstone is also making use of their AI tech to “accelerate tower site delivery, reduce audit costs, and raise safety standards across its entire national portfolio” of over 15,700 cell sites. Once again, this boost will partly come from greater automation and reducing the amount of unnecessary work involved with each deployment.
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Andy Train, Chief Network Officer at Cornerstone, said:
“We are excited to bring state of the art Agentic Video AI technology to our ecosystem of clients and partners. With Vyn®, Cornerstone will gain 360° remote visibility of sites and assets, enabling AI powered self-audit automation, as well as building a proactive safety culture. This will allow Cornerstone to speed up network rollout and slash multiple audit rounds, which will set a new benchmark for mobile infrastructure delivery in the UK and ensure that a connected world is always within reach.”
According to the announcement, engineers and contractors will be able to use the Vyn® SmartVideoNotes app on their smartphones to simply create “show and tell” videos to capture rich data around site conditions, work progress and delivery handover and commissioning, capture maintenance needs, and report issues in real time. The verticalised Video AI automatically analyses work quality and prompts both fieldworkers and remote assurance teams to speed up decisions and work done on the field.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Buzzword overload!
So what they mean is engineers record videos with their phones, and “AI” apparently checks for issues? The engineers would have to video awfully slowly to be able to get enough detail, probably take the same amount of time as just inspecting it themselves…
…but it’s got AI so it must be good!
Artificial intelligence must be better than real intelligence because Grok says so.