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Finance & Strategy
O2’s deal with Lars Hinrichs mobile startup ‘not very helpful’, says DT chief
Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges is irked by impending launch of a disruptive, high-tech mobile venture by entrepreneur and former DTAG Supervisory Board stalwart Lars Hinrichs.
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Africa Tech Festival: Connect with ZIRA
DT boss says ‘shit MVNOs’ are most at risk in era of AI buying
Nandy plugs ‘gaping hole’ in UK rules, as InfraVia applies pressure on Netomnia deal
Vodafone warms to EU’s AI Gigafactory potential — report
Deutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: Verizon takes another dip into DT talent pool for new digital chief
UK debate over how to power AI infra escalates
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Finance & Strategy
INWIT warns Fastweb + Vodafone it’s all or nothing on tower access
INWIT has escalated its fight with Fastweb + Vodafone, rejecting its anchor tenant’s vision of an orderly twelve-year migration and insisting that, if the MNO can terminate its tower contract, it must vacate the entire estate by March 2031.
Finance & Strategy
Safaricom sets about sweating Ethiopian assets as startup drag fades
Safaricom’s Ethiopian gamble is beginning to look less painful, with service revenue surging, EBITDA losses collapsing, and capital requirements falling sharply — but forex benefits flatter the improvement, and true profitability remains some distance away.
Network
AT&T says it won’t wait for 6G to deploy ISAC, as Ericsson debuts its sensing solution
AT&T and Ericsson are pushing integrated sensing and communications towards commercial deployment years before 6G, arguing that 5G infrastructure can already support useful applications such as drone detection, albeit with dedicated sensing radios and extra compute.
Finance & Strategy
Openreach eases fibre build, puts the hammer down on connections
Incumbent will miss its year-end 25 million premises target, but a three-month extension barely dents BT’s increasingly upbeat fibre narrative. The bigger question is whether surging take-up can now translate into the cash flow and retail growth.
6G: European telco leaders lay down migration markers
In depth: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and Vodafone set out their conditions for 6G at Network X, mapping how Europe’s leading operators are converging on a pragmatic vision to protect 5G investments, minimise hardware disruption and making economics drive migration, albeit with differences remaining over spectrum sharing, core architecture, and timing…
Africa Tech Festival: Connect with ZIRA
Meet ZIRA at Africa Tech Festival to discover how next-generation wholesale BSS solutions are helping operators simplify operations, accelerate service delivery and maximise returns on fibre investments. Book a meeting with ZIRA’s experts to explore how your business can turn fibre infrastructure into lasting commercial success.
BTwatch: Openreach twist adds heat to UK broadband shake-up
Vodafonewatch: redrawing operations as AI gains agency
UK Infrawatch: nexfibre ups CMA pressure, UK infra ambitions reined
Telefónicawatch: Operators link up on European defence
Deutsche Telekomwatch: space invasion and AI vision
BT swoops on TalkTalk in landmark rescue deal - Oct26
Vodafonewatch: hunting for common ground as network disruption looms
Telefónica restructures leadership as Venezuela exit nears - Oct26
Deutsche Telekom targets satellites, AI and defence in strategic push – Sep-Oct26
BTwatch Analyst Briefing: Openreach sweats its fibre infra
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VM O2 may save close to £1bn on fibre as CEO declares three-player market unviable
Ericsson gets VodafoneThree’s AI-RAN moving
VM O2 TalkTalk interest challenges BT ‘only viable buyer’ narrative
Telefónica Peoplewatch: Virgin Media O2 preps ground for three-way brand reboot
Telefónica’s Brazilian growth engine considers opportunistic fibre takeover
BT wraps £350m Scottish network mega-migration
DT and Telefónica win digital euro contracts in sovereignty drive
Telefónica turns to R&D to reinforce space platform credentials
UK Budget boost for data centres, crumbs of comfort for telcos
UK Infrawatch: nexfibre ups CMA pressure, UK infra ambitions reined
Orange tests D2D appetite as Europe eyes satellite sovereignty
UK mobile players shun call for tighter rollout governance
nexfibre refuses to blink as CMA deadline for remedies passes
Nokia opens the door as Europe arrives at NVIDIA’s AI-RAN party
German fibre: 1&1 is GlasfaserPlus’ new plus one
Netherlands: Odido’s private equity parents de-couple
Telefónica’s German fibre JV enters debt talks — reports
European altnet associations unite on call for copper-to-fibre migration certainty
Peoplewatch
BT Peoplewatch: dealmaker joins the ranks, Consumer reshapes brand leadership
November 2026 update, including a new M&A lead, reshaped consumer brand and product teams, and a strengthened public sector bench at BT Business…
Changing of the guard at Foresight’s Connect Fibre
Telefónica Peoplewatch: Virgin Media O2 preps ground for three-way brand reboot
Vodafone Peoplewatch: strengthening the political and regulatory bench
Orange Peoplewatch: Group crowns cloud platform lead
BT Peoplewatch: ExCo shake-up signals strategic shift
BT networks R&D chief passes the baton
Spain’s Indra melds defence and space units as part of strategy refresh
Telefónica Peoplewatch: Spain/centre rebooted; Virgin Media O2 continues shake-up with B2B/B2C swaps
Vodafone Peoplewatch: network leadership rotations, fresh Greek renewal
VM O2 TalkTalk interest challenges BT ‘only viable buyer’ narrative
Telefónica’s Brazilian growth engine considers opportunistic fibre takeover
Eutelsat sees €10bn commercial opportunity as IRIS² work begins
Orange Spain holds nerve to retain value-over-volume focus
KPN ponders fibre end game after hitting six million homes mark
Nandy plugs ‘gaping hole’ in UK rules, as InfraVia applies pressure on Netomnia deal
Orange CEO still confident on SFR timeline despite workforce discontent
Agentic AI forces telcos to rethink data, skills, network operations
Vodafone rekindles Polkomtel flame with shared services link-up
EY-Parthenon: in face of disruption, telcos must think differently about differentiation
Vivo targets Brazilian SMEs with Squad.com agentic AI tie-up
Nokia opens the door as Europe arrives at NVIDIA’s AI-RAN party
What the EU’s critical communications plan means for telcos — Strand Consult
Orange Business gains second SecNumCloud visa for AI focused cloud offering
ROVA unboxed: telco-native endpoint platform emerges from stealth mode
DT ramps up security with Cloudflare tie-up
Telefónica Peoplewatch: Spain/centre rebooted; Virgin Media O2 continues shake-up with B2B/B2C swaps
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TelcoTitans Eventwatch calendar: the industry events that matter
TelcoTitans Eventwatch highlights the key telco and digital infrastructure events to look out for in 2026 that really matter, and those we will be covering, attending, and associated with as an official media partner.
6G: European telco leaders lay down migration markers
France’s Scaleway bulks up to meet demand for sovereign AI
Event-driven evolution: Boost Mobile and Wavelo pioneer the composable telco
From reactive to proactive: Ericsson and AWS bring agentic intelligence to OSS/BSS
Exposing network APIs was the first step — building the business model is harder
InterviewEY-Parthenon: in face of disruption, telcos must think differently about differentiation
Analysis: Can telecom operators transcend infrastructure before non-traditional challengers capture the enterprise frontier? Drawing on global C-suite research, this analysis explores why differentiation, agentic architectures and national sovereignty represent the industry’s most viable growth engines, and why defensive cost-cutting will not secure long-term relevance.
Technology & ITEvent-driven evolution: Boost Mobile and Wavelo pioneer the composable telco
Case study: When Boost migrated nearly eight million subscriber accounts to an event-driven architecture, the operational priority was absolute invisibility. The stealthy overhaul unexpectedly also delivered telecom’s current top prize: an auditable, composable foundation capable of executing agentic AI without risking the core ledger…
Technology & ITFrom reactive to proactive: Ericsson and AWS bring agentic intelligence to OSS/BSS
Playbook: Legacy billing environments increasingly imperil CSP agility, yet ungrounded autonomy poses intolerable operational risks. Through an expanding collaboration with AWS, Ericsson is embedding governed, multi-agent artificial intelligence into production systems. Read how CSPs are already executing migrations and accelerating go-to-market…
NetworkFastweb + Vodafone turns merged network into ‘city map’ for autonomous operations
Open access: Swisscom Italian OpCo is building a real-time network digital twin as foundation for reaching Level 4 autonomy by 2030. With systems integrator Celfocus, the operator set out how pairing agentic AI with this foundation is already delivering results.
Technology & ITROVA unboxed: telco-native endpoint platform emerges from stealth mode
After quietly powering management and cross-selling for millions of enterprise and consumer devices for a US telecom titan, ROVA Software is stepping out of the shadows to bring its telco-native platform to the rest of the world with the launch of ROVA Europe and a mission to reinvent how other operators maximise endpoint experience and value-add.
InterviewiQmetrix to telco: ‘Your next customer may not be human’
Interview: Jason Raymer explains why a better strategy is needed for omnichannel retail, and why an architectural “system of intelligence” is required to bridge digital and physical operations for operators to differentiate on service.