Telco Partners & Suppliers

All the latest insight, news and analysis on telecoms partner and supplier activity with tier-1 telcos.

Telco cloud blueprint: DT’s HTC takes control of network stack, sets terms for vendors

Network & Infra

Telco cloud blueprint: DT’s HTC takes control of network stack, sets terms for vendors

Deep dive: after quietly rebuilding its network core from the ground up on its own terms, Deutsche Telekom is now asking the rest of the industry to follow its Horizontal TelCo Cloud lead. But with rivals pursuing their own visions, the question of who truly leads the field is far from settled.

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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.

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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…

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