Competition & Confidentiality
A trusted forum with clear boundaries.
Mobile AI Council brings together executives from businesses that may compete. Useful peer learning therefore requires more than confidentiality. It requires clear limits on information that should and should not be exchanged.
Appropriate subjects
Participants may discuss publicly available operator cases, published research, authorised historical lessons, generic workflows, organisational challenges, responsible-AI principles, non-confidential implementation methods, general capability questions and appropriately aggregated or anonymised information.
Information that must stay out
Do not disclose, request or discuss non-public information concerning:
- Current or future retail prices or discount strategies.
- Confidential wholesale rates or host-MNO negotiating positions.
- Customer, territory or market allocation.
- Current or future bids or tender strategy.
- Intended subscriber volumes or acquisition targets.
- Future launches, campaigns or commercial strategy.
- Confidential sales, revenue or demand forecasts.
- Planned responses to named competitors.
- Confidential supplier negotiations.
- Information you are not authorised to disclose.
How sessions are run
- Competition reminder
- Closed sessions start with a reminder of these rules.
- Active moderation
- The chair may stop, redirect or close an inappropriate discussion.
- Private exercises remain private
- Operator AI Decision Briefs are not collected by the Council.
- No operator data dump
- Participants are not asked to upload confidential pricing, strategy or subscriber forecasts.
- Closed discussion is not recorded by default
- Formal presentations may be recorded with permission.
- Publication requires permission
- Attributable quotations, named cases and identifiable company information require appropriate authorisation.
- Confidentiality is not a competition-law exemption
- Non-attribution arrangements do not make prohibited information exchange acceptable.
If a problem arises
- 01Stop the discussion.
- 02Do not contribute further information.
- 03Ask the chair to record that the discussion was stopped.
- 04Where appropriate, seek advice from your own organisation or the Council's designated competition adviser.
Acknowledgement
“I have read the Mobile AI Council Competition & Confidentiality Rules. I understand that participation does not authorise me to disclose confidential or competitively sensitive information and that I remain responsible for my obligations to my employer and under applicable law.”
These rules support responsible participation but do not constitute legal advice.
Rules version: CC-2026-10-v1