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Partnerships & AlliancesNetherlands’ two largest altnets team up
DELTA Fiber to offer first off-net fibre services in 2027, using wholesale deal with Open Dutch Fiber. Move forms part of a plan at DELTA to drive broadband services take-up, following leadership refresh…
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Partnerships & AlliancesProsegur finds a new home security ally, in Vodafone
Vodafone Portugal set to become latest telco to delve into the residential alarms market, forming a commercial relationship with Spain’s Prosegur. Deal is a win for long-running telco business development push at Prosegur.
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Partnerships & AlliancesBT takes drone-in-a-box tech mainstream with police deployment
Telco seeks to accelerate decision-making during emergency railway incidents through ‘routine operation’ of drone tech with British Transport Police, marking latest evolution from experimentation to commercial deployment for BT.
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Partnerships & AlliancesSES and Elveo Mobile extend tie-up into satellite manufacturing
Pair of satcos build on infra-sharing relationship with new agreement to expand manufacturing capabilities in Europe. Deal to support SES with executing its multi-orbit strategy, and follows recent completion of MEO constellation…
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Partnerships & AlliancesSpace42, Viasat to spend $1bn to get satellite JV off ground
New platform venture Equatys’ co-parents prep fund for first phase of manufacturing and deployment, while moving to secure additional capital from third parties. Financing brings the JV a step closer to launching “space tower” proposition…
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Partnerships & AlliancesEutelsat marks out an alternative, software-defined future for ground infra assets
After failed ground infra offload to EQT, satellite operator is to partner with France’s Skynopy to upgrade the network for new, high throughput applications in connectivity and beyond…
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Partnerships & AlliancesEuropean telcos change course on D2D after licence rethink
Reports raise prospect of a new D2D platform that could provide a European alternative for next-gen services, with telcos said to be eyeing a slice of 2GHz MSS spectrum under contentious new EU allocation plan.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVi, BSNL seal nationwide network-sharing pact to take challenge to India’s ‘big two’ — reports
Struggling state-backed duo said to agree infrastructure-sharing and roaming deal to complement Vi’s capex-intensive network upgrade programme, and support an effort to make a dent in Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio dominance…
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Partnerships & AlliancesSES taps newly-merged Elveo Mobile to strengthen multi-orbit play
SES ties with satco created from merger of Lynk Global and Omnispace, seeking to strengthen LEO offerings while reinforcing multi-orbit strategy. Elveo Mobile CEO Ramu Potarazu says tie-up will help to accelerate time-to-market as the newly created provider seeks to expand constellation…
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone deepens Telenor ties, becomes international voice gateway
In-depth: Vodafone deepens strategic Nordic relationship to take in international voice, building on Procure & Connect alliance, exploiting UK Group’s scale, and supporting Telenor’s strategic pivot to home region ‘optimise’ and ‘focus’.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone Business taps TCS to aid UK revival
Operator ties with Tata Consultancy Services to jointly develop solutions to help B2B clients improve customer experience, with AI, automation, cybersecurity, and others in the mix. Agreement marks latest step in Vodafone Business’ partner-led expansion of enterprise portfolio…
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone Spain said to expand American Tower deal in move to oust Vantage
Operator reportedly follows up extended Cellnex tie-up with a three-fold increase in number of accessible sites from American Tower. Deal said to form part of wider plan to replace main wireless infra provider Vantage.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone extends Satellite Connect Europe ties into Portugal
Vodafone Portugal to offer direct-to-device connectivity through Satellite Connect Europe tie-up. Deal adds another Vodafone Group market to SatCo’s coverage plans, although launch troubles at AST SpaceMobile have pushed back commercial go-live…
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone joins UK rivals to create sovereign AI model
Vodafone becomes third telco to partner Cosine on development of alternative, sovereign AI model for software development in mission-critical use-cases. Tie-up sees Vodafone join telco peers BT and Telefónica Tech UK&I in backing UK’s purported “first fully sovereign frontier AI model”…
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Partnerships & AlliancesNew Spanish resilience regs said to prompt expanded Telefónica-Cellnex tie-up
Operator reportedly extends Cellnex energy backup partnership to cover up to 1,000 additional sites. Deal comes as Spanish telcos face more stringent redundancy requirements from the government, following last year’s major electricity grid outage…
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Partnerships & AlliancesBezos trumps Musk on home turf as Amazon Leo signs South African satellite deal
Amazon Leo has secured a breakthrough route into South Africa, partnering with Vodacom-linked Herotel to launch satellite broadband services while rival Starlink remains constrained by local licensing requirements.
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Partnerships & AlliancesDT, Orange, VM O2, Vodafone join new European advertising venture
The European Media Marketplace is established with the ambitious aim of providing a counterweight to dominant US tech giants in the digital advertising space.
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Partnerships & AlliancesOrange Belgium picks Nokia for ‘major’ network transformation
Multi-year fixed-mobile convergence project.
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Partnerships & AlliancesHrvatski Telekom infuses AI into enterprise biz with Beyond Now
Croatian operator to use Beyond Now solutions suite to create new capabilities for enterprise customers and internal teams. Telco targets operational efficiencies and user experience improvements, as CEO Nataša Rapaić seeks to accelerate AI adoption in line with parent Deutsche Telekom’s broader strategy…
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Partnerships & AlliancesBouygues Telecom firms up Aduna tie up with anti-fraud focus
After originally entering a distribution agreement with Aduna in 2025, Bouygues now plans to scale up enterprise access to ID verification APIs through a more formal partnership.