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         Venturing & Investments Venturing & InvestmentsDeutsche Telekom lines up Brookfield for AI data centre investmentDeutsche Telekom turns to towerco partner Brookfield Asset Management for co-investment in AI data centres and considers setting up an off-balance sheet partnership as competition heats up for EU-funded contracts. 
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         People PeopleTelefónica’s ex-digital chief Alonso joins cybersecurity player CloudflareTelco’s former Chief Digital Officer takes up a new remit to drive international expansion at cloud and cybersecurity solutions provider. 
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         Partnerships & Alliances Partnerships & AlliancesOrange expands OpenAI tie-up to add weight to Africa focused modelsOrange claims to be the only telco to be given early access to OpenAI’s latest open‑weight reasoning models. 
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         Financial & Performance Financial & PerformanceRefresh pays off at Prosegur-Telefónica home security JVSpanish operator’s home security partner talks up value of joint venture, and wider connected-alarms business, as user base passes one million… 
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         Analyst Briefings Analyst BriefingsOrangewatch Analyst Briefing: H1 results, M&A in France, and interviews with Orange Business execsLatest from Orange, including the analysis of the Group’s recent earnings call; ongoing speculation about M&A in France and the future of SFR; interviews with a series of senior execs; and the latest from Spain… 
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         Analyst Briefings Analyst BriefingsEMEA Infrawatch Analyst Briefing: fixed infra highs and lows; backbones strengthenedLatest in EMEA digital infra: satellite trio begins picking IRIS2 construction partners; EU takes another look at KKR’s recent fixed asset purchase; South Africa’s Competition Commission finally gives verdict on Vodacom–CIVH fibre JV; African telcos and govs strengthen backbone… 
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         B2B B2BTelefónica Tech takes Perplexity into Spanish B2BBuilding on Telefónica’s Perplexity offering for consumers, Telefónica Tech has teamed with ‘$18bn’ AI search scaleup to provide its enterprise software version to B2B customers in Spain. 
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         Network & Infra Network & Infra‘Being Level 4’: Telefónica CTIO eyes 2030 hyper-automation goalDeep dive: Tech boss Andrea Folgueiras indicates Telefónica has now got several high-level autonomous networking projects up and running, delivering tangible business impact. But autonomy has still only been achieved in pockets, and the operator remains in the early stages of a transformation journey targeting near-full Level 4 status by 2030… 
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         Analyst Briefings Analyst BriefingsVodafonewatch Analyst Briefing: deals driving network, security upgradesLatest from Vodafone, including a spectrum fee reprieve; SecOps potential with $1bn partner Google Cloud; DOCSIS development in the Netherlands; more from Turkey, Kenya, South Africa, elsewhere… 
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         Technology TechnologyEU brings quantum tech into AI Gigafactory foldThe EU expands its EuroHPC JU project to include “strategic provisions” for developing quantum technology, eyeing synergies with other high-performance computing infrastructure. 
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         Eventwatch EventwatchSnowflake World Tour: A Global Event SeriesFrom August to October 2025, the Snowflake World Tour is coming to 23 cities across three regions to showcase the latest innovations driving business transformation with data, AI, and collaboration. 
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         Operations OperationsDT ‘holds keys’ to data sovereignty in Google Cloud migrationOperator is moving a swathe of data to Google Cloud with sovereignty controls engineered in partnership with T-Systems. It hopes to replicate the safeguards for other enterprises in regulated industries. 
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         Interview InterviewInterview: CDIO on Orange Business’ pivot to greenfield, ‘AI first’ tech stackExclusive: Hriday Ravindranath explains thinking behind ambitious shift onto entirely new B2B IT stack for AI-era products as Orange Business reinvents itself built on digital-first, AI-native platform principles, underpinned by ‘design partnerships’ with Blue Planet, CSG, ServiceNow and Splunk… 
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         Analyst Briefings Analyst BriefingsEMEA Infrawatch Analyst Briefing: lighting up subsea lines; wireless infra org tweaksLatest on EMEA digital infra: Boldyn Networks and Deutsche Funkturm restructure; Telxius partners with Google on new transatlantic subsea system; Telenor eyes Norwegian expansion with GlobalConnect asset acquisition… 
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         Analyst Briefings Analyst BriefingsVodafonewatch Analyst Briefing: far-flung fibre dealsLatest from Vodafone as it secures antitrust commission support for a fibre move in South Africa and cements an Australian fibre sale; Portugal CEO vents M&A frustration; group lends support to AI RAN Alliance as open RAN overhaul continues; build up to Q1 earnings… 
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         Partnerships & Alliances Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone adds Euro-heft to unbalanced AI-RAN AllianceVodafone’s entry into the AI-RAN Alliance takes the still-young vendor- and academic- and Asian-operator-heavy consortium past 100 members. With the AI-RAN market forecast to reach $10bn by 2030, the move underscores the strategic importance of efficiency gains and new revenue opportunities through autonomous networks. 
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         Network & Infra Network & InfraYondr opens doors to new German data centre, eyes European expansionData centre player cuts the ribbon on 40MW Frankfurt facility, which it claims marks a “significant step” in its ongoing European expansion plans. The launch brings Yondr’s total deployed IT capacity over the past year to 100MW. Read more… 
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         Products & Services Products & ServicesDT’s API boss sees contextual future for Magenta portfolioAs the telcos close in on realising revenue from network APIs after several years of standardisation and development, Deutsche Telekom has mapped out how its MagentaBusiness API portfolio will evolve over the next five years. 
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         Analyst Briefings Analyst BriefingsTelefónicawatch Analyst Briefing: Murtra’s M&A mantraReports indicate the Spanish group could cash in on a significant chunk of its Vivo stake to bolster the financial platform for its upcoming new strategy. Investment and M&A speculation also continues to swirl around UK asset Virgin Media O2 and a big-bang return to the European data centre scene. Read more… 
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         Network & Infra Network & InfraCase study: Telenet adopts network digital twins to break automation glass ceilingHow can operators achieve genuine network autonomy? Telenet’s Stijn Eeckhaut and Celfocus’s Carla Penedo reveal their phased approach, leveraging network digital twins and a cognitive operations layer, as well as empowering engineers to build trust in new data-driven processes. 
 























