Latest Premium Insight – Page 83
-
Premium
Vodafone taps DOCOMO Digital for direct carrier billing
Turkish OpCo teams up with long-time Group enabler to provide customers with payment security on Huawei’s AppGallery marketplace.
-
Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone Group furthers shake-up with open RAN vendor picks
Capgemini Engineering, Dell Technologies, Keysight Technologies, NEC, Samsung, and Wind River selected for commercial UK deployment. Vodafone top brass insists that accelerating the pace of RAN innovation, rather than cost reduction, is initial the strategic driver for open RAN rollout. Quietly trimming UK open RAN site commitment from 2,600 ...
-
Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Europe: Canary Islands’ Subsea cable
Subsea cable to the Canary Islands; mce tapped for device self-assessment.
-
Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Africa: Vodacom debuts new products
Safaricom rival Ethio making hay in m-money; Vodacom debuts new products in youth market and SMME lending; Aziz back on radar in Tanzania.
-
Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Group: Group shells out €20m in fines
Dutch copycat in Ireland ‘not on cards’; sustainability front and centre with green network boost; Group shells out €20m in privacy fines.
-
Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Associates & JVs: ACCC says ‘I told you so’
ACCC says ‘I told you so’ over TPG merger’s impact on competition.
-
Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Partner Markets: Oman appoints CFO
du and Philips form e-health partnership; Proximus subsumes Mobile Vikings; Vodafone Oman appoints CFO.
-
Premium
Vodafone TV seeks AI smarts with Kaltura and AWS
Next phase for cloud-based Vodafone TV is applying ML and AI. Operator also exploring MEC via AWS partnership for low-latency TV services.
-
Premium
BT flags hollow core fibre trial with Lumenisity, Mavenir
BT optical networks guru Lord hails technology as “truly remarkable”, but large-scale deployments unlikely anytime soon. Shorter latency times of up to 50% and lower 5G rollout costs among perceived benefits.
-
Premium
EE backtracks on post-Brexit roaming charges
EE became the first UK MNO to announce plans to reinstate roaming charges for customers travelling to the EU. O2 UK and Three UK follow suit to an extent, tweaking fair usage policies.
-
Premium
BT bets on Sisal lottery bid
National Lottery licence up for grabs, with three challengers to Camelot incumbency. Sisal, with BT as technology supplier, faces competition from Allwyn and its partner Vodafone UK. Digital transformation top of the ticket for tender adjudicators.
-
Premium
Zoom CEO shares love with BT Global
Zoom top dog hails input of BT in recent contract win. Telco sees channel partnership as something worth shouting about. Clear confidence that there exists sustainable level of business with Zoom, as remote working key part of post-COVID world.
-
Strategy & Change
Fintechs ready to disrupt capital markets’ status quo
BT Radianz directors discuss the potential for fintechs to drive a step change in the capital markets sector. Hybrid cloud described as an accelerator at the culmination of a 20-year digitalisation process for the industry.
-
Suppliers & SCM
Openreach enlists CommScope for full-fibre support
CommScope’s NOVUX platform to enable Openreach to hit FTTP deployment goals. US-based vendor added to a growing list of rollout programme partners.
-
Premium
Elsewhere in BT Group: Procurement adopts spend management system
Procurement adopts tail spend management system; new stakeholder engages workers union; BT’s future HQ under new ownership.
-
Premium
Elsewhere in BT Technology: Qlik’s cost-saving BT deal
Qlik trumpets cost-saving success in BT deal; “better trust models” needed to combat cyber risk; and G7 conference leads to UK–US R&D agreement.
-
Premium
Elsewhere in BT Consumer: BAI goes underground
BAI takes fibre competition underground and BT unveils a new set-top box.
-
Premium
Elsewhere in BT Enterprise: new multichannel campaign for SMEs
All business at Enterprise with the launch of a new multichannel campaign; Street Hubs get an upgrade; and local authorities the target for future partnerships.
-
Premium
Elsewhere in BT Global: Arqit relationship bolstered
Arqit’s BT relationship bolstered with FQS sign-up; BT Global takes US government contract.
-
Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Openreach: fibre rollout crosses Forth Road Bridge
Altice impact on Openreach future yet to be seen; full-fibre rollout crosses the Forth Road Bridge.