Latest Supplier News – Page 8
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Partnerships & Alliances
Spanish MNOs, and Vodafone, tie on Europe’s ‘first’ Open Gateway API lab
MásOrange and Telefónica tout benefits of an “innovation environment” in driving API adoption.
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: earnings add to Kirkby’s optimism
Latest from BT as CEO Allison Kirkby uses drab half-year results to cast vision for the future; Business prepares for Global divestment; Openreach beats fibre expectations; BT riled as Vodafone–Three merger nears…
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Financial & Performance
Vi CEO hopes for subscriber loss turnaround after upping investment
Indian operator’s CEO Akshaya Moondra gives vague ‘expectation’ for a customer base upturn by the end of the FY, and remains reluctant to make any promises.
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Network & Infrastructure
Orange puts energy into solving open RAN challenges
Fyuz 2024: Orange’s Atoosa Hatefi explored the requirements for more energy‑efficient open RAN deployments.
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Eventwatch
Telefónica talks up potential of partial optical disaggregation trials
Fyuz 2024: Operator experiments with IPoDWDM to provide greater flexibility for implementing new services and reduce cost of adopting open network architectures.
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Network & Infrastructure
1&1 still rueing May’s 5G network outage
German challenger operator is seeking compensation from partners over outage that has had lasting effect on commercials and financials.
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Weekly Briefings
Vodafonewatch Weekly: shots fired in Italy as mergers progress
Latest in and around Vodafone, including Swisscom CEO’s sharp words for Iliad, which is circling as Vodafone Italy gets ready to merge with Fastweb; Group H1 earnings incoming with performance in Germany among the focuses; UK merger gets conditional clearance; Instant Networks sent to Valencia…
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Network & Infrastructure
Elisa races through fibre-Gs; readying Euro-first 100G PON with Nokia
Operator wants networks future-proofed for when customer demand emerges for nascent 100G technology, partnering fellow-Finn to underpin capability.
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Weekly Briefings
Vodafonewatch Weekly: Group reset puts telco-as-a-service front and centre
Latest from Vodafone and its ecosystem as B2T unit launches to commercialise shared operations; M&A attempts blocked in South Africa and started in Romania; and a new Iliad move on Italian assets midway through antitrust hearings…
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Enterprise (B2B)
T-Systems continues to amp AI capacity with new business unit
DT’s enterprise IT division is looking to AI to help it meet some ambitious medium-term revenue growth targets, and as well as recently flagging plans to expand its infrastructure platform, has now charged a new engineering function with the task of deepening its AI product portfolio and winning custom projects with clients.
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Strategy & Change
Vodafone set to debut new ‘Business to Telco’ unit as part of central function refresh
Vodafone quietly debuts B2T unit targeting peers, as Shared Operations gets overhauled and Group adds vim to telco-as-a-service ambitions.
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Network & Infrastructure
MásOrange turns to Ericsson for open RAN and 5G revamp
Spanish joint venture indicates that ultimate aim is to increase diversity of suppliers. Move also seen as part of efforts to reduce influence of Chinese vendors in 5G networks.
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: more B2B sell-off reports pose questions for future of Business
Latest from BT as B2B slim-down continues; minority owner DT sees emerging ‘options’ for 12% stake; and Openreach sets about Nokia Altiplano deployment…
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Network & Infrastructure
Boldyn’s Igor Leprince: Connections built on trust
CEO reflects on a personal and professional mission to lead his neutral host venture on a journey that is embracing network complexity to transform lives and organisations, binding together the fabric of industry and communities worldwide, and helping mainstream operators bear the load. Read more…
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Weekly Briefings
Infrawatch Weekly: Community Fibre wins backing, Spring Fibre loses; data centres dominate
Latest from the digital infra scene in the UK and beyond, including Community Fibre’s latest funding; the UK National Wealth Fund’s capital cut; SpaceMobile’s role in satellite war games; and plenty more…
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: Group goes fishing with Euro tower chips
DT wraps up central and eastern European tower assets as a deal sweetener, as it seeks to revive regional infra consolidation hopes.
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Network & Infrastructure
DT seeks an Edge on the hypers with expanded European Telco Cloud
German operator says it now has multiple cloudified core network hubs in place in all of its Europe segment markets, plus Germany — creating a stronger platform for network management and delivery of more advanced 5G services.
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Weekly Briefings
Telefónicawatch Weekly: Group seeks R&D boost, CEO comfy in GSMA chair, fresh startup investment
Telefónica goes to market with new AI, blockchain, cybersecurity, and quantum computing services. Meanwhile, German telcos lend each other a hand to get Gigabit 5G services on the rails.
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Operations
DT turns to GenAI to help navigate its own data
Californian player Glean joins Perplexity and OpenAI on DT’s GenAI roster, as Group refreshes partner base for billion-euro tech ‘impact’ push.
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Network & Infrastructure
Orange builds head of steam as open RAN targets loom
Speaking at Network X, Atoosa Hatefi confirmed Orange procurement will be mandating RAN open interfaces from 2025, with TCO scale in Europe envisioned by 2030. stc, Qualcomm and Wind River also see remaining ORAN hurdles overcome. Read more…