All Consumer (B2C) articles – Page 7
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Consumer (B2C)
BT Sport signs billboard deal
BT Sport launched a campaign with Ocean Outdoors to broadcast Champions League highlight reels on its digital billboards.
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Premium
Elsewhere in BT Consumer: premium broadband competition grows
Vodafone UK takes swing at Consumer’s premium broadband service; net neutrality debate resurfaces.
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Public Affairs
Ofcom gives BT fibre pricing freedom, but adds burdens
Openreach not to face caps or controls on national ultrafast pricing until 2031, as long as it is “fair and reasonable”. Locally-targeted pricing from Openreach prohibited as Ofcom seeks to protect emerging altnets. BT Consumer may lose some edge from 90 day notice period for new propositions from Openreach. ...
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BT going it alone with Shared Rural Network plans
O2, Three, and Vodafone reach agreement to construct more than 220 new 4G masts by 2024, taking partial ‘not-spot’ coverage to 84% of UK landmass. Sites will cover areas BT/EE already reach, with “historic investment” seemingly respected, per Allera’s request. Frozen out of initial announcement, BT updated on its ...
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Elsewhere in BT Consumer: spectrum auction looms
UK spectrum auction inches closer, although Ofcom still cautious; Digital Voice expansion; rights picked up in MotoGP and cricket.
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Premium
Vivo selects Ericsson for charging solution
B2B and B2C charging consolidated on vendor’s OpenStack-enabled Ericsson Charging platform. Agreement builds on 2012 BSS partnership, with an eye to deployment of emerging 5G products and use cases.
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Consumer (B2C)
Droniq goes B2C as new app takes flight
Deutsche Telekom JV looks to widen customer base with app for drone hobbyists. App provides a visual tool for drone flight validation. Early teething problems highlight the project’s complexity.
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Strategy & Change
Play axed from Telefónica Mexico’s content offering
OB opting to strengthen alliances with other OTT players instead of building out own video content platform. Movistar Play remains live in a host of other Latin American markets, but ambitious growth targets across LatAm far off realisation.
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Venturing & Investments
Two Movistar Money ventures set for take-off
Consumer finance business green-lighted for launch in Colombia, enabling Group to extend partnership with stakeholder BBVA. Telco also heading trials of similar personal loan service in Mexico, with Banco Sabadell on the scene. Both moves continue recent refresh of Telefónica’s financial services partnerships.
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Financial & Performance
Go-to-market stasis hits Talkmobile numbers
Vodafone UK’s in-house MVNO yet to report uplift from u-turn on customer acquisition and implementation of new platform.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone bolsters Partner Markets federation with MTS renewal
Russian group flags extension to long-standing Partner Markets agreement. Existing relationship billed as fruitful, with eyes now on further “joint projects”.
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Operations
TPG: no plans to drop Vodafone brand
Telco forced to clarify position on sub-brand strategy amid media speculation. Appointment of former Vodafone NZ exec to see refresh of brand strategy, with focus on driving better customer experience.
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Premium
BT plays down risk of FireEye security breach
Group assesses threat to CTI customers as “low to moderate”. No indication, assures BT, that any customer data was compromised.
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Innovation (R&D)
BT explores edge to “level up” latency for UK gamers
As BT’s edge strategy evolves, gaming emerges as potential use-case. BT’s Neil McRae shares latest thinking about edge business cases. Consumer edge applications more advanced than enterprise services.
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Consumer (B2C)
Movistar steps up smart-home drive
Longstanding partner and stakeholder CaixaBank namechecked as partner on TV-based payment solution. Group’s smart-home play given potential leg up by pandemic, with expanded Living Apps catalogue.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Holoportation in 2021: BT seeing DoubleMe
3D image processing specialist hints at telco deployments of HoloPort platform in 2021. Business-to-consumer service said to be in pipeline. DoubleMe–BT relationship growing out of Telecom Infra Project innovation hub.
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People
IT transformation lead Rachel Higham leaves BT
Higham, Managing Director of IT, leaves a vacancy currently plugged by key lieutenant Mark O’Flaherty. Exec appointed CIO at advertising giant WPP. Self-styled “Chief Sherpa” leaves with substantial transformation work still to be done, despite marked progress.
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People
Ex-Deutsche Telekom CFO Dannenfeldt resurfaces at Ceconomy
Shareholders to confirm appointment of former Telekom CFO in early-2021. Deutsche Telekom veteran to help steer business through period of transition.