Telecoms Partnerships & Alliances

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

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.

Partnerships & Alliances

Vodafone gives Partner Markets a fresh lick of paint, installs new leadership

Jan Holzberg replaces Petr Dvořák to lead Partner Markets, which has been rebranded to Vodafone Partners.

Partnerships & Alliances

DT and EWE given fresh fibre build pass till 2030

Despite competitor qualms, German infra giants gain a renewed regulatory green light, with conditions, for fibre joint venture Glasfaser Nordwest.

Partnerships & Alliances

4iG lands deal to build Montenegrin gov-backed data centre

Hungarian IT and telecoms player kicks off plans to construct a Tier III data centre in Montenegro, moving on strategy to expand digital infra presence outside of its home turf…

Partnerships & Alliances

Telefónica Tech taps CrowdStrike to give SOCs an AI upgrade

Operator adopts CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI AgentWorks platform to help automate cybersecurity responses at Security Operations Centres. The partnership aligns with broader plans to invest more heavily in cybersecurity to drive B2B growth…

Network & Infra

INWIT fights back as anchor tenants threaten to dismantle Italian towerco business model

In-depth: Towers showdown erupts in Italy as Fastweb + Vodafone looks to pull out of its INWIT MSA and is met by ‘conflict’ accusations and a legal response. With Vodafone still exposed indirectly, and peers observing with interest, Europe’s once-staid infra sector continues to reset…