All articles by Ken Wieland
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Network & InfrastructureGermany’s antitrust watchdog investigates 1&1 allegation of Vodafone obstruction
· Federal Cartel Office launches formal enquiry on whether Vodafone purposefully impeded 1&1 from acquiring 5G antenna sites.
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Strategy & Change
American Tower exits Poland
Relatively small tower portfolio sold to local player Emitel.
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People
Orange Business reels in more outsiders to bolster management team
Digital expert from BT Global parachutes in as new CTIO; AWS senior exec named Chief Products and Marketing Officer.
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Strategy & Change
Deutsche Telekom CEO lays down AI gauntlet to management
Höttges tasks different Group business units to share top ideas on how to exploit AI. CEO has high hopes for more AI-driven cost reductions, greater productivity, and speedier software development. Artificial Intelligence Competence Centre to act as AI “teaching unit” for rest of Group.
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Partnerships & Alliances
T-Sys gets moving on Manufacturing-X with VDMA
Living Lab platform combines with data exchange initiative from German Mechanical and plant Engineering Association to explore future potential of factory floor production.
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Products & Services
DT continues to mull TV strategy
Pedro Bandeira acknowledges competitive threat of smart TV content aggregators.
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M&A
T-Systems drives off with GeoMobile
DT enterprise IT arm expands public transport and logistics portfolio with acquisition of Germany-based software provider.
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Public Affairs
T-Mobile US discloses yet another data breach
Latest security gaffe affects more than 800 customers; intrusion went undetected for over a month.
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M&A
INWIT in the crosshairs of Ardian
French investment fund said to be plotting takeover bid for Vodafone‑backed TowerCo.
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Events
Orange frets over 5G energy bill
Hervé Suquet says higher traffic volumes threaten to wipe out 5G’s greater energy efficiencies if industry does not work together.
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Operations
Deutsche Telekom puts Group stamp on T-Systems Multimedia Solutions
Organisational rejig sees “independent” subsidiary transferred from T-Systems International to Group.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT’s Comfort Charge EV buddy starts insolvency proceedings
Troubled EV charging solutions provider Compleo on the lookout for M&A.
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Operations
Vodafone Germany to trim management and hire new sales staff
CEO Philippe Rogge flags “restart” with 1,300 full-time jobs, mainly in management and admin, in line for the axe.
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Public Affairs
Ofcom consults industry on mmWave licence conditions
Regulator confirms release of 6.25MHz spectrum across 26GHz and 40GHz frequency bands for mobile use.
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Public Affairs
Deutsche Telekom in firing line over Deutsche Bahn, Huawei deal
Operator feels backlash over reported supply of Huawei components to rail company via Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions.
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Venturing & Investments
Austrian fibre challenger raises nearly half of €1bn funding target
Syndicate of six European banks provide €417.5m in financing to Magenta Telekom and Meridiam’s new fibre JV.
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M&A
Liberty 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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Partnerships & Alliances
Virgin Media O2 wheels in greener 5G kit from Ericsson
Awards Swedish supplier “multimillion GBP” contract as part of network modernisation programme.
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT picks first suppliers for commercial open RAN rollout
Fujitsu, Nokia get the nod in Germany; Mavenir for European markets.
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Products & Services
DT flexes 5G SA muscle
Showcases swift deployment of cloud‑native 5G SA functions using Ericsson software and Google Distributed Cloud Edge.
