Telecoms automated assurance spending is forecast to increase at a CAGR of 3.3%

The telecoms industry has reached a critical inflection point. The main narrative in 2026 is 5G ‘monetisation’, but the transition from ‘building’ 5G to monetising it has exposed a harsh reality: traditional, manual operations simply lack the power to drive this next phase. Furthermore, the sheer complexity of cloud-native architectures and the stringent requirements of new service-level agreements (SLAs) are transforming automated assurance (AA) from a back-office technical upgrade into a frontline business imperative.