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Partnerships & AlliancesT-Mobile MONEY partner secures two-pronged contract extension
White-label banking partnership extended until 2025.
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Peopleruhrfibre brings in another ex-Vodafone Germany exec
Ex-Vodafone exec Christian Klein joins ruhrfibre in double role as COO and CIO.
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PeopleBurger brings in Global allies to inaugural BT Business leadership team
CEO Bas Burger confirms top-table of BT’s newly merged £8bn+ B2B division: 25 incumbents and 2 incomers whittled down to an ExCo baker’s dozen.
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Venturing & InvestmentsInfraVia, Iliad close out deal for Polish fibre JV
InfraVia Capital Partners acquires 50% of Iliad Group’s PŚO, which aims to cover “half of all Polish households”.
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PeopleInfra investor people moves: KKR swaps EMEA chair
KKR brings in Johannes Huth as new Chairman of EMEA.
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Strategy & ChangeBT and Three go “unilateral” in MBNL refocus
Sites to be upgraded independently in pursuit of autonomy, efficiency.
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Network & InfrastructureRakuten + Rocky Linux = open RAN economics and sustainability at scale
Switching lanes from Red Hat to Rocky Linux for its cloud telco OS is designed to keep Rakuten’s disaggregated network model sustainable at scale.
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PeopleDigital infra people moves: Pohlmann named finance chief at Deutsche Funkturm
Former Magenta Telekom CFO takes up same spot at Deutsche Funkturm.
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PeopleVodafone’s Vaz moves to Spain in CEO rejig
Mário Vaz, long-standing Vodafone Portugal CEO, takes on Spanish challenge.
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Financial & PerformanceEU recovery funding starting to flow, delays dampen telco expectations
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility funding programme enters midlife with less than a third of money distributed.
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M&ALiberty CEO ‘in M&A talks with CityFibre’
Not a done deal. Discussions are preliminary and large-scale consolidation in UK altnet market likely to attract sharp scrutiny from regulators.
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PeopleVodafone loses its B2B chief
Vodafone Business CEO Vinod Kumar to ‘retire’ to new portfolio career.
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PeopleVodafone-Altice fibre JV begins filling out C-suite
OXG Glasfaser makes double appointment of Matthias Ospelkaus as CFO and Stefan Rüter as CCO.
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PeopleSatCo people moves: Airbus trio fill up Aalto Board
Thierry Baril, John Harrison, and Xavier Tardy appointed to Board of Directors at HAPS provider Aalto.
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PeopleNdegwa says ‘no question’ over Safaricom CEO spot
Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa dismisses departure rumours as he approaches three years at the helm.
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Strategy & ChangeEU must ‘get house in order’ to fight investment drain to US business
Vodafone and Telefónica chiefs among industry leaders to call for EU regulatory reform to attract investment in the bloc.
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PeopleGavin Patterson adds new board roles post Salesforce
Former BT Group CEO in demand at enterprise software firms BuildOps and Wix after leaving Salesforce at the end of January.
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InterviewInterview: Avealto’s Walt Anderson says ‘time has come’ for atmosat
Anderson on HAPS (atmosats) — “it’s a technology whose time has now come”.
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Network & InfrastructureGermany readies for Huawei networks ban
Government said to be close to implementing outright ban on Chinese equipment in 5G networks.
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Venturing & Investmentsmaincubes fuels German ramp-up with new financing
maincubes receives finance facility to fuel ‘next phase’ of growth in Germany.