Telecoms and Big Tech: collaboration or assimilation?

Will telcos evolve into new types of business? Will tweaks to the business model more or less maintain the status quo, or will big tech start to swallow the sector up? It feels like change is in the air, but that can take many forms.
One of the key themes of MWC 2023 appeared to be the merging, or increasing intertwining, of the telco and wider tech industry –  the latter of which certainly seemed to have a larger presence at the show than ever.
Sometimes this merging is focused on MN