All Big data articles
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Eventwatch
Vodafone gets GenAI in action through ‘big bets’, phased adoption
Vodafone cloud engineer Jared du Plessis says GenAI is delivering tangible results for networks, with three ‘big bets’ leading the way. RoI is front of mind, but phased approach to AL/ML integration, and a Google Cloud-powered orchestration platform, simplifies the journey…
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People
O2 Germany: Mallik Rao adds B2B growth mission to tech remit
After five years spearheading O2’s pathfinding cloud transformation strategy, now-CT&EO given added responsibility to bring B2B and tech teams closer together. Read more…
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Partnerships & Alliances
Virgin Media O2 to anonymise mobile geodata for brand owners via Blis’ Audience Explorer
UK operator signs three-year exclusive deal with data platform to give marketers insight into mobile brand engagement, as VM O2 remains keen to expand market for O2 Motion offering…
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone Business picks Tealium for customer data management
Enterprise-focused division has deployed Tealium solutions in six markets, with more to follow in the coming year.
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Financial & Performance
Telefónica Tech reaches €2bn sales mark
Q2 FY24: Digital B2B services unit hits revenue milestone in last twelve-month period, and reported another solid quarterly performance. Read more…
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Operations
GenAI at BT: data hygiene critical to moving from ideas to implementation
Chief Data & AI Officer Deepika Adusumilli highlights data quality and cultural change as the two primary challenges to AI adoption at scale, with AWS’s Q and the ongoing Google Cloud migration supporting the effort.
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Strategy & Change
Deutsche Telekom’s Hafez peels open AI layers to explore challenges ahead
DT’s Vice‑President of Technology Strategy highlights need to keep testing a mix of telco‑friendly LLMs because they are continually changing.
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Products & Services
New startup seeks to bring UK telcos into adtech
Industry veteran hopes to drum up UK operator support for a new aggregator platform to bring together ad sales and performance measurement powered by telco data.
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Strategy & Change
Snowflake: Building a telco space where data exchange can thrive
Vodafone, AT&T, Snowflake and Amdocs come together to explore telco operational and business realities and the breadth of possibilities for the age of data, digitalisation and AI when everything is connected. Learn more about how data environments are being transformed to get fundamentals right internally, for customers, and for wider collaboration…
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Financial & Performance
‘Over-delivering’ Telefónica Tech inches towards €3bn sales goal
B2B digital services unit completes another strong year amid receding M&A-based growth.
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Products & Services
Telefónica Tech UK&I expands security portfolio with NextDefense
Business-to-business digital services unit launches managed security portfolio in the UK and Ireland, expanding existing security offerings and leveraging AI and big data, among other technologies, to improve enterprise security. Move comes as Group continues to grow in the sector after major restructuring…
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica Tech taps Teradata for AI-based data analytics
Tech bulks up AI solutions portfolio with expansion of relationship with longstanding analytics partner, bringing two new cloud platforms to clients while furthering the Group’s digital transformation goals…
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Products & Services
O2 Germany customers stay on the move during train strikes
New findings from analytics and big data partnership with Teralytics said to give mobility providers “useful” insight for planning alternative arrangements during future strike action.
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M&A
Telefónica ‘weighs up’ Tech stake sale
Group said to be considering partial sale of B2B digital services arm, with the unit valued at more than €2bn.
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Network & Infrastructure
Magyar Telekom agrees network investment in exchange for tax breaks
MoU with Hungarian state will see outdoor 5G network coverage extended to nearly 99% of population by 2026, up from current 60%.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Deutsche Telekom sees SKT, Anthropic do heavy lifting on multi-lingual LLMs
Collaboration between South Korean operator and US-based AI startup to develop multilingual large language models for the benefit of the Global Telco AI Alliance, of which DT is a member.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Deutsche Telekom spreads AI wings with ‘global’ alliance
Group signs MoU with e&, Singtel, and SK Telekom to form Global Telco AI Alliance.
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Products & Services
Virgin Media O2 data shows commuters feeling the heat
Virgin Media O2 Business releases latest Movers Index, showing consumers cutting back on expenses and hybrid working growing in popularity, amid inflation and climate fears.
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Operations
Telefónica Tech merges biz units in major reorg
Cybersecurity & Cloud division is now combined with IoT & Big Data unit to create unified portfolio for Group’s B2B customers. Top management stays on board with different areas of responsibility.
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Premium
Virgin Media O2 Business launches UK movement index
VM O2’s enterprise arm creates Movers Index product to track top-level movement trends for UK businesses and consumers.