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Products & Services
VfEg deploys Red Hat’s Cloud Suite to upgrade website
Agile technology and ways-of-working accentuated.
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Public Affairs
Hutch lukewarm on VHA prospects, amid flux
Growth downplayed as VHA seeks to persuade regulators of deal logic. Huawei ban and nbn margin squeeze reiterated as pain-points.
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Products & Services
V by Vodafone family gets on bike
Offering looks to tread familiar ground of vehicle-monitoring.
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Innovation (R&D)
Deutsche Telekom takes high-altitude punt on comms-in-the-sky player
DT furthers status as prolific corporate venture player and backer of potential supply chain disruptors. Tie-up has echoes of Google’s high-profile Loon initiative.
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Strategy & Change
Lessons for BT Group as PSTN switch-off process moves up a gear
Openreach has the opportunity to learn from other incumbents as it picks up the pace in the PSTN switch-off project.
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Venturing & Investments
TEAC UK class of 2018: BT focuses on rural and intent
BT holds TEAC UK Wave 2 FInal as part of TIP. Two start-ups win, with another awarded Special Prize.
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Venturing & Investments
Telefónica helps reel in vendors for TIP projects
ADVA and Edgecore moving forward with TIP-driven disaggregated gateways for 5G traffic management. Telefónica co-opetition with Vodafone in full flow through OpenRAN group, with early partners named, including Parallel Wireless. Operators’ joint CrowdCell work could lead to the next big thing in small cells.
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Public Affairs
Michael Sherman: Agile new strategy and transformation head at BT
BT Group appointed Michael Sherman, a US-based management consultant, to the role of Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer. Boston Consulting veteran flying in to revamped executive team in May 2018. New senior team member will be an advocate of agile management approaches and major overhaul of traditional telco thinking. ...
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Public Affairs
Vodafone-Afrimax partnership takes another blow
African market realities continue to bite Vodafone’s regional partner Afrimax Group, as a second of the operator’s business units hit difficulties. Another setback for Vodafone’s diminishing Partner Markets federation as flagship sub-Saharan African commercial and operational collaboration is reduced to just one territory.
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Strategy & Change
Vodafone Group puts on a new look in Canada
The renaming of Vodafone’s local unit gives a nod to recent years’ increased interest in ties with Canadian vendors and operators.
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Venturing & Investments
Welcome interlopers: BT’s TEAC launch event
Opening of the TEAC shows BT embracing a more dynamic approach to identifying disruptive technology, recognising the convergence of telecoms and IT. Startups in the fields of IoT, open networking, and quantum security selected as winners of the six-month innovation search.
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Venturing & Investments
Vodafone Ventures arm still on snooze as startups move on and up
Visions of tumbleweed continued to pervade around Vodafone’s rudderless venture capital unit, as its portfolio of past “strategic” investments was allowed to erode further.