Latest Deutsche Telekom Insight – Page 5
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Partnerships & Alliances
DT wants more telcos to join ‘non-exclusive’ API club
Network X: German group’s API supremo Peter Arbitter keen for broader support for new aggregator business in bid to extend proposition beyond current twelve-telco membership.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: refreshed T.Capital goes nuclear
Anticipated refresh of the Group’s tech ecosystem strategy sees org changes within T-Systems and Group Development.
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Strategy & Change
T-Systems eyes software tie-ups with new Digital Ventures arm
T-Systems brings in Porsche exec to drive digital product development tie-ups with enterprise partners.
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Venturing & Investments
DTCP gives Irish data centre player a cash injection
Infrastructure investment group invests in Northern Ireland- and Republic of Ireland-focused Atlantic Hub, seeking to expand data centre ambitions beyond initial interest in Germany…
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone Germany extends fibre offer after stitching together rival networks
German OpCo can now activate 9.5 million customers on partner networks, DT included, after ironing out technical issues.
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People
DT picks in-house exec to lead new €2bn tech M&A fund
Telekom Strategy Consulting’s Julia Kainz to switch to DT’s Group Development division, with responsibility for seeking out high-tech growth acquisitions.
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Public Affairs
T-Mobile takes $31.5m FCC hit for data breaches
The US operator is to spend $15.75m alone on fixing its cybersecurity after data breaches.
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Premium
T.Capital: a dip into DT’s growing tech funding pool
TelcoTitans provides a rundown on the make-up and back story of T.Capital, DT’s evolving and expanding in-house stable of tech investments.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: T-Mobile stamps loyalty card
Strategy update from American operator dominated by tech-led efficiency and optimisation initiatives and partnerships.
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Venturing & Investments
Deutsche Telekom plugs into nuclear fusion tech startup
Group’s T.Capital arm invests in Germany-based Marvel Fusion, which aims to have a nuclear fusion plant up and running within the next decade.
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M&A
IQGeo: KKR’s latest tech buy adds geospatial smarts to sprawling infra portfolio
Private equity giant KKR is taking Cambridge-based geospatial software specialist IQGeo private in £333m deal, pledging to fuel new phase of growth. Log in to understand this hot specialist and what it provides network operators worldwide…
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Weekly Briefings
Infrawatch Weekly: Gigaclear eyes more funding, SatCos look to partners, DT fuels infra beefs
Latest from the digital infra scene in the UK and beyond, including potential funding gap at Gigaclear; Intelsat links with Vodafone; new leadership at Freedom Fibre; Ofcom calls in OTS reinforcements, and plenty more…
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Partnerships & Alliances
Meta ends peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom in Germany
War of words erupts between DT and Meta in the dispute over who should pay for data traffic.
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Strategy & Change
T-Mobile ups enterprise momentum with three-pronged approach
Callie Field sets out key strategies to drive up T-Mobile’s share of this ‘under-penetrated’ market.
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Innovation (R&D)
Celfocus: Project Sylva enables enterprise for new connectivity solutions like MPN
Evolving at breakneck speed, the open-source cloud‑native platform is highlighting opportunities to unlock solutions development as well as greater efficiency for telco cloud. Telco SI Celfocus pinpoints streamlined mobile private network propositions to advance delivery of connected enterprise experiences.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Eyebrows raised as Deutsche Telekom joins association of fibre rivals
Deutsche Telekom has become a member of fibre access association BUGLAS, but not everyone is happy about it.
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People
Vodafone Peoplewatch: regulatory affairs newcomers; divestment strategy prompts change
35+ senior and strategic changes across the Group and its investments, including: several regulatory affairs appointments; procurement changes under Kenny Graham; divestments principal brought in to lead Spanish and Italian exits; more across Group interests in Europe, India, Africa, Australia…
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Consumer (B2C)
OpenAI: Altman to assign ‘best people’ to T-Mobile churn challenge
OpenAI CEO bullish on commercial potential of AI tie-up with T-Mobile, based on letting its platform explore operator’s “massive pools of data” for better and more rapid support decisioning.
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Products & Services
DT teams with Perplexity on new ‘Magenta AI’ help tool
Group set to bring expanded AI info-gathering and support features into My Magenta customer app, using Perplexity engine.
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Strategy & Change
T-Mobile lifts 5G FWA user target into double figure millions
Factors behind target expansion include advancements in network and device quality, more spectrum, and precision marketing.