Telco Partners & Suppliers

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

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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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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…

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