All Connected/Smart (city, home, etc.) articles
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Partnerships & AlliancesO2 supports green initiative in Thames Valley
O2 UK helps fund smart city deployment for greener networks drive. ADEPT’s Live Labs project small‑scale, but with broader ambition.
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Venturing & Investments
Telefónica seeks yet more startups: Open Future Call II
Open Future innovation hubs scout for Spanish startups with broad technological focus.
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Partnerships & Alliances
T-Systems goes virtual to dispense a dose of smart-factory reality
Division ties with startup Immersionn on virtual experience of campus network solutions.
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Products & Services
DT gets a fix on NB-IoT tracking, logistics
Cross-border solution developed in partnership with 4smartlogistics, SLOC. Potentially available in 18 countries across Europe.
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Strategy & Change
Italy’s INWIT: we’re Mercedes of tower race
CEO sees refresh of INWIT’s internal operations, instigated following meld of Vodafone Italy towers, as basis for industry leadership and stepping stone to expansion into new markets.
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People
Deutsche Telekom Group people movements, July 2020
Höttges continues internationalisation of management by shifting Gopalan to head Telekom Deutschland.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT taking Precise Positioning to ten markets, maybe more
Precise Positioning service for autonomous vehicles to reach eight more European markets by early-2021. DT and partners back ‘state space representation’ open standard to enhance accuracy of satellite positioning.
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Strategy & Change
BT drives climate plan with electric vehicle commitment
Telco continues to add to its carbon reduction plans through partnership with climate groups. Lifting up green‑focused startups though a new accelerator programme expected to foster innovation.
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Enterprise (B2B)
Telefónica veteran lights Rio with Smart Luz tender
Smart Luz consortium wins tender to overhaul Rio street lighting; Consortium includes High-Trend, founded by ex- TBS CEO Juan Revilla.
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Network & Infrastructure
DT tie-up looks beyond city limits
Smart-city and 5G-flavoured partnership with Münster utility eases rollout constraints being suffered by Deutsche Funkturm.
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Strategy & Change
Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone clap €130bn German stimulus
Massive €50bn pot set aside for ‘future’ technologies, including 6G, open RAN, AI, and quantum computing. New, €5bn mobile infrastructure company appears to take heat off mobile operators. Thinly veiled threat issued to network suppliers over ‘openness’ and interoperability.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica links Osasuna with football tech
Smart shin pad provider Humanox nets deal with Club Atlético Osasuna and Telefónica for Spanish grassroots rollout.
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Innovation (R&D)
O2 joins call for UK to step up self-driving tests
O2 UK, Cisco, and partners recommended a UK cyber test facility for connected and autonomous vehicles, complete with allocated spectrum and a core and fibre backbone.
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Products & Services
Vodafone chasing connected-device long tail
Group widens search for differentiation in consumer IoT side-hussle.
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Network & Infrastructure
GSMA flags Movistar Negocios IoT deployment
GSMA trumpeted the apparent success of Movistar Negocios’s deployment of a range of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions as part of its Beyond Connectivity promotional campaign.
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Public Affairs
Telefónica|Vivo Smart Steps solution accused of privacy breach
Telefónica|Vivo denied allegations that data collated through its Smart Steps solution can identify individual customers and their movement patterns.
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Partnerships & Alliances
T-System, Ottopia demo AI-equipped remote vehicles
T‑Systems partnered with startup Ottopia to demonstrate remote control of a connected‑car using an artificial intelligence (AI)-equipped management system.
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Products & Services
Deutsche Telekom launches IoT smart bracelet for babies
Deutsche Telekom (DT) launched the Neebo Baby Sensor Wristband , an Internet of Things ‑enabled smart bracelet for babies and toddlers.
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Products & Services
Deutsche Telekom, Swift Navigation partner for enterprise CAVs
Deutsche Telekom partnered with Swift Navigation, a positioning solutions provider for autonomous vehicles, to offer services to enterprises.
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Products & Services
Telefónica España launches alarms JV with Prosegur
Movistar Prosegur Alarmas JV started operations in March 2020. Prosegur becomes minor Telefónica Group shareholder as part of transaction.
