All Innovation (R&D) articles
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Financial & PerformanceBrazil’s Vivo calls on AI to aid fight with inflation
Chief Executive Christian Gebara surveys “vast number of opportunities” from AI tech, including an upcoming major customer support revamp, as operator seeks to restrict inflation impact on margin.
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Suppliers & SCMVodafone puts AI-powered procurement engine on the road to autonomous buying
In-depth: Vodafone Procure & Connect updates on its two-year GenAI-led procurement overhaul, with a partner-powered platform adopted at scale and delivering tangible results. More to come, including a potential platform export, as telco buying settles into its ‘third wave’…
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Analyst BriefingTelefónicawatch: widening telcos’ vocal range
Analyst Briefing: Round-up of developments at Spanish incumbent, including AI-focused innovation around voice services, and infrastructure developments in Spain, Germany, and the UK. Read more…
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InnovationTelefónica tests out real-time call translation
Group is exploring a move into network-based translation and transcription as part of new-wave innovation programme centring on 5G SA and AI.
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PeoplewatchDeutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: Höttges shores up Board of Management with deal renewals
The latest roundup of DT people moves sees three top bosses sign up to new contracts and provide some steadiness and security after the recent sudden resignation of tech chief Abdu Mudesir. While greenlighting those deals, the Group’s Supervisory Board completes a tech-focused refresh of its own ranks. Elsewhere, T-Systems fills out its newly elevated defence unit and T-Mobile Poland and Telekom Deutschland make senior tech appointments.
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Network & InfraVodafone’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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Network & InfraOrange’s Hardouin: 6G needs to stay flexible in fast-evolving AI era
Networks and infra research lead Eric Hardouin says it’s important not to “carve everything in marble” because AI can still change what is required of future 6G networks.
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Analyst BriefingBTwatch: Openreach gets innovative with fibre tech
Analyst Briefing: As Ofcom lays out its latest regulatory regime and rivals squabble over altnet consolidation, Openreach remains focused on fibre rollout. Deals with Google Cloud and a pilot with Lightsonic put the incumbent’s fibre deployment machine into overdrive, and showcase the potential value-add beyond pure connectivity…
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AnalysisCutting through the satellite hype: Starlink and LEO’s threat to global telecoms assessed — Strand Consult
Guest analysis: with D2D connectivity dominating discussions at MWC26, terrestrial operators must reassess their broadband and defence sector strategies. Strand Consult’s outspoken founder cuts through the hype to separate disruptive fact from industry fiction…
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PeoplewatchDeutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: new Inflight Services & IoT chiefs named
The latest roundup of senior people moves at the German giant, including the introduction of new bosses at Deutsche Telekom IoT, the Group’s Inflight Services unit, and DT’s procurement function.
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Strategy & ChangeOrange’s AI supremo Steve Jarrett: ‘There’s no magic, it’s just doing our job’
Steve Jarrett, Orange’s Chief AI Officer, talks through how the operator is going to execute — and validate — the value gains it is targeting, as part of new Trust the Future strategy. Key challenges revolve around culture, data governance, and agent development and management, he says.
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Network & InfraBT gets in on 6G action with vendor triumvirate
MWC26: Group adds its logo to Nokia, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm 6G initiatives as BT’s tentative, sometimes dismissive view of 6G begins to give way…
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TechnologyDT throws lot in with T-Mobile on ‘open’, ‘AI-native’ 6G
MWC26: DT moves into the slipstream of its American powerhouse on AI-focused 6G development work, setting up a basis for R&D collaboration and backing the ‘open 6G’ vision of T-Mobile’s close tech partner NVIDIA.
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Network & InfraNokia and AWS team up to show agentic AI 5G slicing with Orange and du
Nokia and AWS debut an agentic AI 5G Advanced slicing solution now running in live Orange and du networks.
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Network & InfraFrom defence to attack: CSG’s blueprint for telco AI transformation
Interview: Telcos risk losing to nimbler rivals unless they accelerate AI readiness. CSG argues that operators must simplify legacy customer systems, speed service innovation, and nurture scalable ecosystems — or face losing strategically vital B2B growth opportunities whilst defending declining legacy markets. Learn more…
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InnovationTelcos demonstrate breakthroughs in quantum teleportation
The future quantum internet took big steps forward this week as separate teams at Deutsche Telekom in Germany and TELUS in Canada announced milestone demonstrations in quantum teleportation.
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Network & InfraQuantum leap: tracking telco deployments
New research from STL Partners has identified 106 quantum announcements involving 35 telcos, putting operators at the forefront of quantum future…
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PeoplewatchTelefónica briefs new Wayra CEO to create ‘stronger alignment’ with business
Andrés Saborido takes over as Chief Executive of Telefónica’s prolific open innovation platform Wayra, with instructions to remain within the guardrails of the Group’s cost-conscious Transform & Grow strategy…
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Strategy & ChangeTransformation-focused Nokia gears up for AI ‘supercycle’
While telcos remain important customers for the Finnish tech vendor, it is transitioning from a “very telco‑centric” base and embracing the “AI supercycle”.
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M&AIndra salvages former BT drone investment Altitude Angel
Spanish defence group buys drone traffic management platform from Altitude Angel, following the provider’s fall into administration, with aim to strengthen UK presence and aerospace portfolio…