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Digital ReportsDeutsche Telekomwatch Report #99 – November 2020
Key stories include: BuyIn on manoeuvres for new normal | HAPS tie-up locked for take-off | DT takes a grip as TIP reorganises | IoT becomes Germany-driven | Samsung gets an in at NetWorkS!
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Products & ServicesT-Systems flags blockchain benefits for Europe’s asylum system
Data privacy remains a key stumbling block.
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PeopleDeutsche Telekom moves: India digital ops expansion
Bedding-in of new Global Business Solutions organisation continues. India-based development unit Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs remains in build-out mode, with Bharti Airtel alumni being tapped. Detecon executives off to form new venture. William Tal given digital strategy remit at T-Mobile for Business.
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Network & InfrastructureAccenture added to Deutsche Telekom’s Campus Network ecosystem
Industry 4.0 applications deployed at industrial technology testbed. DT’s campus 5G portfolio continues to grow. Once-dissenting German operators now planning to use licence-based campus networks for service and technology development. Steady growth in 5G local frequency allocations maintained, reaching 88 organisations in the first year. ...
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Suppliers & SCMDeutsche Telekom to harness machine learning-based buying
DT’s finance and human resources shared services unit builds process mining expertise with Celonis. By 2025, DTSE aims to have machine learning-based recommendations for “Procure-to-Pay” process.
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Partnerships & AlliancesDeutsche Telekom sheds its TIP spectator tag
Group backs OpenBNG, a new transport initiative from OOPT project group, champions new O-RAN/TIP lab in Berlin, and involved in technical RFI for OpenSoftHaul solution. DT is absent, however, from new Solution Groups, focused on “end-to-end” virtualised networks.
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Strategy & ChangeElsewhere in Telekom Deutschland: 5G Broadcast on the cards; Samsung edtech partnership flagged
TDE working on 5G-based in-vehicle broadcasting.
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Strategy & ChangeElsewhere in T-Mobile US: Vivint smart home available
5G-focused TMUS gives 6G proponents a brush-off. Smart-home experiment flagged in California.
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Strategy & ChangeKubernetes underpinning cloud native push
T-Mobile US highlights cloud cost benefits of container-based and standardised platforms. DT’s Nathan Rader reiterates need to change people and processes en route to a cloud-native future.
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Strategy & ChangeElsewhere in Systems Solutions: Wind River trumpets T-Sys tie-up
Wind River flags campus network engagement and joins re-branded Open Infrastructure Foundation; T-Systems on lookout for partnerships in Brazil.
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Strategy & ChangeElsewhere in Deutsche Telekom Europe: Hrvatski upgrades to Prime; B2B Europe partners Versa Networks
Partnerships with Logate, Skroutz Food, and Versa Networks trumpeted.
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Network & InfrastructureNetWorkS! flags Samsung RAN tests
Rare appearance of South Korean vendor in Deutsche Telekom network discussions shows various avenues being explored following Huawei clampdown. Polish network-sharing JV is keeping its options open amid the controversy over China-based suppliers.
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Strategy & ChangeElsewhere in Deutsche Telekom Group: Simpel in the shopping basket
Navigation patents on the block; vendors urged to open up; T-Mobile Netherlands keeps it Simpel with proposed re-takeover.
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Products & ServicesTelekom quietly retires CarConnect service
End of road coming in 2022, when partner Mojio hints revamped offering might emerge. Unclear whether or not equivalent services in Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, and the USA face a similar fate.
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PeopleBuyIn’s Pyrtek heads into consulting
Joint venture’s former CEO moves on quickly and secures advisory roles at Oliver Wyman and INKEF. Procurement know-how leveraged alongside telco experience.
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Network & InfrastructureDeutsche Telekom teases LTE-M expansion
Austria apparently in LTE-M prep phase. Trials underway in Poland, Hungary.
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Network & InfrastructureAI-equipped drive-bys help Deutsche Telekom snip fibre costs
Group continues to shop around for cost-saving innovations and lauds AI as a way to drastically reduce FTTP planning times and costs.
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Venturing & InvestmentsT-Mobile US sets up corporate VC fund for 5G
T-Mobile Ventures formed in collaboration with Touchdown Ventures. Targets “early-to-mid-stage” companies. Aims to develop “breakthrough” 5G products and services. Mojio and Circle already part of T-Mobile Ventures’ investment portfolio.
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Strategy & ChangeT-Systems tags onto hyperscalers with new platforms business
Volkmar Rudat to head up latest business to emerge afresh from T-Systems’ post-COVID-19 reorganisation. New unit focused on selling value-add around cloud infrastructure and software from hyperscaler partners.
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Partnerships & AlliancesBENOCS works Deutsche Telekom connections for APAC expansion
Spin-off ties with DT-affiliated MarvelTec to land China Telecom Global engagement.