Telecoms Partnerships & Alliances

All the latest insight, news and analysis on telecoms partnerships and alliances including BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone.

Boldyn further expands its 4G infrastructure in the London Underground to support the Home Office’s long-delayed ESN project, in collaboration with EE and TfL. Move sees the neutral host provider expand its portfolio of ‘specialised’ connectivity infra…

Partnerships & Alliances

Vodafone draws on $1bn Google Cloud ties in enterprise AI expansion

Vodafone Business homes in on SMEs with expansion of Google Cloud-powered services portfolio. New customer service and security offerings for European customers mark the latest development in the pair’s ten-year link-up…

Analyst Briefing

Deutsche Telekomwatch: re-platforming plans

Analyst Briefing: With Europe continuing the flounder, DT is said to be prepping a major M&A move to strengthen its foothold in America and tightening links with state-side tech partners. In Europe DT ups its data sovereignty credentials with a revamped business cloud service and unveils what it calls a ‘blueprint’ for telco cloud deployments…

Products & Services

BT commissions Nscale, Rackspace to advance UK ‘sovereign’ AI ambitions

Group expands its Sovereign Platform product suite and builds up the underlying AI data centre capacity via deals with Nscale, NVIDIA, and Rackspace Technologies.

Partnerships & Alliances

Telefónica and Indra said to eye Tess-style cyberdefence alliance

Further signals emerge that the two minority-state-owned groups are coming closer into alignment as telco and defence tech converges and the Madrid seeks to build up the country’s industrial and military might.

Network & Infra

Vodafone’s Pairpoint plots tower-based edge compute to meet AI demand

Vodafone’s Web3 joint venture partners Nillion and Chainlink to remove financing as a blocker to cell tower-based edge data centre build, providing ‘trusted’ returns to investors and ‘balancing’ the AI economy…

Suppliers & SCM

Tomorrow Street fast-tracks quantum techco Arqit into Vodafone orbit

Quantum-safe security scaleup Arqit has been named a Tomorrow Street portfolio company after graduating from Scaleup X programme, seeking closer Vodafone ties and enterprise opportunities…

Partnerships & Alliances

DT expands Starlink ties into German B2B comms

DT selects Elon Musk-led satellite operator to provide enterprise broadband services in Germany, seeking to strengthen network resilience and rural coverage. Operator taking selective approach to Starlink deployment in Europe, compared with broad-ranging tie-up in USA…

Strategy & Change

Age of outcomes: Gamma empowering SPs with global expansion, portfolio diversification

As turn-of-the-decade markets mature, communications platform provider Gamma is charting a new course for its service provider partners, leveraging strategic expansion into Asia-Pacific and promoting portfolio diversification to differentiate and unlock new revenue streams.