All API (application programming interface) articles
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Network & InfrastructureAPIs and collaboration central to metaverse entry
Vodafone’s Víctor Fernández joined on MWC panel by Meta, Microsoft, and Telefónica figures to extol metaverse virtues, with warnings of challenges ahead. Collaboration and cross‑industry coordination seen as key to scale deployment. API developments at Vodafone playing a role.
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Network & Infrastructure
Reliance Jio joins DT on network disaggregation journey
Wider rollout planned for Germany as DT CTO appeals for more partners on fixed network disaggregation. Signs of the operator’s Access 4.0 vision becoming a reality?
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Suppliers & SCM
Safaricom lauds TIBCO for service and network advances
Kipkirui says microservices and cloud-native APIs from longstanding partner is key in helping OpCo to become an “insights-led, tech-driven company”. Adds that Safaricom has been able to maintain “maximum value” from capex invested in TIBCO. OpCo aims to migrate entire TIBCO BPM stack from on-prem to public cloud by ...
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Strategy & Change
TMF’s Willetts: maintaining vendor status quo “dangerous”
Speaking to TelcoTitans, Nik Willetts, CEO of industry body TM Forum, outlined his perceptions of the state of digital transformation in the telecoms sector. Procurement‑led vendor management needs to evolve towards partnership for digital acceleration. Hyperscalers can remain more friend than foe as operators seek new ways to differentiate ...
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Strategy & Change
Deutsche Telekom’s OneApp to launch in Germany
Germany will be tenth market to deploy the self-service customer care app. OneApp is key product in the Group’s IT harmonisation programme.
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Products & Services
DT makes next‑gen home improvements
Homegrown and open‑source tech underpin consumer services strategy. New Home OS and Router OS in the spotlight. DT goes big on cloudification, voic‑ification, and orchestration.
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Strategy & Change
Softwarisation is industry’s destiny, says DT’s Gopalan
Telekom Deutschland Chief Executive sees industry value already shifting from physical infrastructure to software architecture. Network orchestration layer and partnerships key to realising telco‑as-a-platform vision. Cannibalisation of legacy revenue part of the digital transformation journey.
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Venturing & Investments
Wayra backed LinkApi lands a buyer
Telefónica’s Brazilian scale‑up hothouse exits LinkApi through Semantix acquisition. Wayra continues transition to later‑stage startups with fourth exit in just over a year.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Technology: Open Digital Architecture gets tested
BT backing digital architecture commoditisation; data traffic records tumble .
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Partnerships & Alliances
T‑Systems saddles up Salesforce unit MuleSoft
T‑Sys is augmenting its digital solutions strategy with Anypoint Platform. MuleSoft relationship in development over past two years.
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Products & Services
Telekom Deutschland takes IP fixed voice to the cloud
New Next Generation IP Multimedia Subsystem (NIMS) platform up and running. Marks another step in DT’s journey to software telco. NIMS suppliers include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, Mavenir, Metaswitch, and Red Hat.
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Network & Infrastructure
Deutsche Telekom’s bumpy journey to software telco: Part I
Choi highlights importance of end-to-end service orchestration and automation… but accuses some open-source industry bodies of work duplication and low ambition. Resistance to disaggregation from established vendors still a problem… but promise of new business models, lower TCO, and faster time-to-market convince DT that software journey is necessary.
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Network & Infrastructure
OOPT telcos select vendors for Phoenix prototypes
Vendors selected to develop TIP’s open, disaggregated optical transponder. Operators again urge faster development.
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Products & Services
Deutsche Telekom preps road tests of homemade IoT Hub
Soon-to-be independent IoT division asserts itself with “ truly agnostic ” solution. Onboarding of friendly enterprise customers imminent. IoT Hub designed to provide path towards managed services revenue.
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Strategy & Change
Deutsche Telekom calls Camunda to orchestrate RPA and APIs
Camunda CEO: “RPA is a painkiller not a cure”. DT Service leans on business process management specialist to manage bots across multiple RPA platforms. Exec regrets not putting in place a process orchestration layer at start of RPA journey. Strategic goal is to shift from front-end RPA to APIs ...
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Innovation (R&D)
Beefing up blockchain
Telefónica accelerates its blockchain activity with launch of TrustOS platform, the Blockchain Activation Programme , and membership of the Hyperledger community.
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Products & Services
Vodacom working on API gateway
Vodacom Group is working on exposing application programming interfaces (API) to customers and partners through a gateway.
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Products & Services
BT demos onboarding proof of concept for IoT
BT showcased its onboarding PoC at the Digital Transformation Asia event in Malaysia.
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Operations
Telefónica embraces short-term pain for data flexibility
Telefónica Mexico provided insights on building momentum on creating replicable data-driven local systems, with potential for wider deployment. Groundwork on establishing principles, and ensuring standardisation, vital to ensuring benefits can flow through to subsequent use cases. Real-world implementation of a standardised approach can cause initial localised pain, but is ...
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Products & Services
Telefónica ramps up AURA
Telefónica provided insights into its AURA strategy, including more market launches. Microsoft’s position as a partner remains a core element of the project. Commitment reiterated to overcoming the challenge of combining local services with a central unified vision.
