Latest Strategy News – Page 67
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Venturing & Investments
Wayra diversifies with audio, fintech and mobility investments
Digital hub Wayra X participates in $3m Gimme Radio round.
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Operations
_VOIS payback: Vodafone’s automation factory accelerates savings
Vodafone’s systems harmonisation drive said to be delivering growing impact.
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Interview
Rakuten Symphony turns up the volume in Europe
After setting up shop in France, Germany, and the UK, Symphony puts out welcome mat for software companies to join its Symworld marketplace.
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Strategy & Change
Velocity, consistency, and privacy first: DT tackles metaverse challenges
Network technology, privacy, and identity management among priorities.
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TMUS ups enterprise ante with advanced 5G solutions
TMUS CEO Mike Sievert reiterates ambition to achieve 20% share of enterprise market by 2025.
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Elsewhere in Systems Solutions: T-Sys strikes deal with Indra Sistemas for Catalonia services
T-Sys teams with Indra on Catalan deal.
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Elsewhere in Deutsche Telekom Europe: Hrvatski scores on football rights
HT lands football rights; Ciena scores at GTS.
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Elsewhere in Deutsche Telekom Group: DT’s complicated Russian wind-down
DT’s Russian wind-down remains a work-in-progress.
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People
Vodafone chair’s board fix isn’t finished yet
van Boxmeer says “several” more changes likely at Vodafone’s top table, amid ongoing scrutiny into Group strategy.
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Operations
Detecon starts hiring for new Nordics business
Detecon Nordics to be headquartered in Sweden.
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Interview
Rakuten Symphony woos European startups
TelcoTitans interviews Geoff Hollingworth, Chief Marketing Officer at Rakuten Mobile’s next-gen cloud connectivity platform spinout. After setting up shop in France, Germany, and UK, Symphony puts out welcome mat for software companies to join its Symworld marketplace.
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Network & Infrastructure
Deutsche Funkturm rumours continue as bidding enters second phase
Unnamed sources parade panoply of Deutsche Telekom monetisation options for German towers business, apparently valued at around €20bn (including debt).
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Elsewhere in Hispanoamérica: Mexico to reap rewards of AT&T migration from November
AT&T network migration to start making cost savings for Telefónica Mexico from November 2022.
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Elsewhere in UK: Phones 4u cases reaches High Court
Phones 4u collusion case reaches High Court; VM O2 fastest full-fibre claims corroborated by ASA.
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M&A
Prisa sale calls time on Telefónica political ambitions
Álvarez-Pallete declares the telco “should not be in the business of opinion-making” after offloading the bulk of its 9% stake in Spanish media group Prisa.
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Operations
Vodafone flags German shop closures
Recalibrating German business to axe portion of retail network amid declining footfall.
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Strategy & Change
Teoh tipped to flee TPG once escrow period ends
Operator’s main shareholders Vodafone and Hutchison free to sell shares after 12 July. So too is founder David Teoh, seen likely to up sticks first. Morgan Stanley analyst doesn’t foresee same share price carnage as when Teoh sold 3% stake last December.
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Elsewhere in Spain: TSA to leverage Agama solution
Vantage upsells Telefónica on 5G; broadcast services arm shoots for quality with Agama deal.
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Public Affairs
Drahi’s BT stake raises national security concerns
UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng wields National Security & Investment Act to review, and potentially reverse, Altice UK’s latest BT stake acquisition.
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Strategy & Change
Allera flags big changes ahead under ‘New EE’
BT Consumer CEO says the first chapter of the BT-EE integration process has been completed.