Tech Mahindra and Microsoft have partnered to launch an AI-powered Network Digital Twin solution targeting medium and large telecom operators. The platform combines Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure Digital Twins with Tech Mahindra's telecom engineering capabilities, using real-time network telemetry, predictive analytics, and agentic AI to automate network operations and support 5G monetisation. The solution aims to reduce operational costs, improve service assurance, and enable enterprise offerings including network slicing and edge orchestration. The companies said the platform enables operators to shift from conventional network simulation to cloud-scale digital twins capable of real-time reasoning, predictive modelling and autonomous decision-making. By integrating Microsoft Foundry, Fabric IQ and agentic AI frameworks, the solution supports closed-loop orchestration across network operations. The platform is also expected to help operators improve asset utilisation, optimise infrastructure investments and reduce operational overheads. Amol Phadke, Chief Transformation Officer at Tech Mahindra, said telecom operators are facing mounting pressure to manage increasingly complex networks while extracting greater business value from their infrastructure.