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BT’s Q3 reflects a troubled three months of inflationary pressures, union challenge, and heightened competition.

Vodafone CEO lauds Vodacom amid M&A speculation

Enterprise (B2B)

Jansen spotlights ‘right management in right place’ to turn around BT’s B2B fortunes

Financial & Performance

Q3 FY22–23: top-heavy Vodafone reassesses life choices under Della Valle

M&A

Deutsche Telekom closes out €10bn towers sale

Openreach’s Milligan takes on expanded commercial remit

Katie Milligan replaces Kim Mears as Openreach hunts down fibre‑building targets.

FTTP buyer’s guide: consolidation rife among UK altnets

Fibre-building upstarts and established incumbents target multimillion-premises infrastructure within next several years, putting M&A on agenda for many.

High hopes: Sitetracker on re-imagining TowerCo InfraOps

Asset management software player gaining clients as infra operators seek to escape outdated practices and tech. Reference win with Vantage Towers seeing vendor support IT transformation accompanying TowerCo’s independent growth ambitions.

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Monthly Deep Dives: Premium Telcowatch Digital Reports

BTwatch Report #341 – February 2023
Key stories include: BT blunders B2B together | Kyndryl backs IT refresh | Critics call out consumer price hikes | German networks offloaded | Openreach unveils new pricing model
Telefónicawatch Report #170 – January 2023
Key stories include: M&A buffer gets extended | Telco rivals link up on adtech JV | Green light for Bluevia venture | German MNOs go low on energy | VM O2 calls for Equinox scrutiny
Vodafonewatch Report #212 - December 2022
Key stories include: CEO Read to exit after agenda derailed | Reeling Group seeks billion+ in savings | Vantage’s mega-deal end game ‘still on’ | Energy demand tops network priority list | Vodacom makes move in foreign infra

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BTwatch

Network & Infrastructure

BT’s Mehta seeks savings with Kyndryl-supported IT refresh

US IT infrastructure specialist will drive mainframe application migration to the cloud.

BT looks to the skies for rural coverage answers

BT procurement rethink providing robust base for inflation battle

Openreach calls for successor to ‘super-deduction’ tax relief

BT offloads German fibre network to 1&1 Versatel

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Vodafonewatch

People

Safaricom gets political ducks in row with Ngumi replacement

Operator confirms appointment of lawyer Adil Arshed Khawaja as Chairman.

Vodafone launches LEO satellite trials in Turkey

Latest Vodafone people moves: Vodacom consumer chief exits

Digital Barriers: take two for surveillance-as-a-service mobile video scaleup

AST SpaceMobile to boost 4G in Brazil with TIM

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Deutsche Telekomwatch

Network & Infrastructure

Pantheon Infrastructure buys into GD Towers growth plan

UK infra fund team provides backing to DigitalBridge as it preps joint takeover of Austrian and German tower business.

Accenture funds DT-linked hologram tech startup

T-Mobile US suffers yet another data breach

Glasfaser Nordwest boosted by financing from bank consortium

Croatian regulator initiates latest spectrum auction

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Telefónicawatch

Consumer (B2C)

Virgin Media O2 joins massive price-hike club

Operator confirms average yearly prices will shoot up 13.8%.

VM O2 extends facilities management contract with ISS

Telefónica adds another €1bn to green financing pot

Telefónica in talks for “collective agreement” on salaries

Álvarez-Pallete: public–private partnerships key for ‘future of work’

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TelcoFutures

High hopes: Sitetracker on re-imagining TowerCo InfraOps

Álvarez-Pallete: public–private partnerships key for ‘future of work’

BT to take 5G ‘network in a box’ to market

Telefónica Tech supports blockchain tourism ‘SuperApp’

UK spaceports still aiming high after Virgin Orbit failure

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Interviews, Profiles, and Opinion

High hopes: Sitetracker on re-imagining TowerCo InfraOps
By Richard Agnew
Asset management software player gaining clients as infra operators seek to escape outdated practices and tech. Reference win with Vantage Towers seeing vendor support IT transformation accompanying TowerCo’s independent growth ambitions.
CityFibre gets IT in shape to keep pace with fibre build
By Michelle Donegan
Chief Digital and Information Officer Vicky Higgin sets course for growth.
Interview: BT Chief Researcher John Davies on realising the robotics revolution
By Harry Padoan
Davies speaks to TelcoTitans about the operator’s Robot Highways project and the place of robotics in addressing employment shortages.
Rakuten: the one secret every transformative operator should know
Guest OpEd from Geoff Hollingworth CMO Rakuten Symphony
The shift of gravity away from hardware is inescapable. It’s the entire telecom business that is being digitalised.
Account Team Spotlight: Celfocus on Vodafone Tech 2025 alignment
Sponsored by Celfocus
EMEA telecoms SI talks to TelcoTitans about the changes it has made to its Vodafone client team to ensure it is in lockstep with the Group’s Tech 2025 strategy.
TIP’s Tenorio on the state of open RAN
By Alex Birkhead
Organisation’s chair says open RAN’s highest purpose for operators can be considered ‘optionality’.

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