All the latest news, insight and analysis regarding the procurement activities and functions surrounding BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Vodafone, including BT Procurement, BuyIn and Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC).
Host of changes made at Deutsche Telekom Services Europe Slovakia. Shivajee Gupta returns to T‑Systems as CTO for Cloud Platform & Cross Cloud Services after VMware stint. Former T‑Mobile US CFO Braxton Carter appointed to board at behavioural engagement technology specialist Symend. Charalampos Mazarakis takes the helm at Telekom ...
Operator partners with Citi Group to grant preferential financing rates to suppliers that score highly against environmental performance criteria. Vodafone also ties with NPO CDP to design framework to encourage suppliers to reduce their own carbon emissions. Move represents an attempt to accelerate reduction of Scope 3 emissions.
9% of Telefonica’s suppliers deemed to be addressing risky issues that could affect the operator’s reputation and sustainability goals.
Ensuring diversity and inclusion is just good business, says Serpil Timuray.
‘Matchmaking’ deal struck between innovation centre Tomorrow Street and South Korean government accelerator.
Vodafone CEO cites need for rebalancing costs.
Operators’ procurement JV to force vendors to disclose environmental progress and ambitions.
Executives lay out anti-inflation toolkit in macro risk-inflected Q1 results call. BuyIn joint venture with DT highlighted as having an important role in dampening cost pressures. African ops described as “resilient” to Ukraine war shockwaves.
Fibre building joint venture brings in additional DT experience with two new hires. Voss named CTO; BuyIn’s Kleebaum brought onboard for Wholesale.