Latest Supplier News – Page 2
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M&A
Hrvatski Telekom ‘diligently assessing’ regional M&A possibilities
Croatian operator’s management remains keen on fashioning it into a regional telco/IT business, saying dealmaking opportunities are being monitored.
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Interview
Fibrus preps off-net retail expansion, asserts leadership in own footprint
CEO interview: having achieved FTTP leadership and segment-topping KPIs within own fibre footprint, altnet now challenging traditional incumbents on own turf. Northern Ireland a case study in high-penetration and how hyperlocal majorly disrupts network, ISP status quo…
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Network & Infrastructure
Mavenir, Red Hat flaunt ORAN go-live for Vodafone’s Vi
Indian operator sets commercial open RAN live as co-parent Vodafone initiates ‘mega tender’; vendors looking to stake claims in crowded partner ecosystem…
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Network & Infrastructure
Virgin Media O2 takes second place in UK’s 5G SA race
Operator launches 5G standalone commercial offering for customers in 14 locations, aiming to deliver higher bandwidth and lower latencies.
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Network & Infrastructure
Liberty flags AWS partnership, taking NaaS ‘to the next level’
Latest from Liberty as busy Group talks up AWS, VodafoneZiggo collaboration on APIs set to go live commercially later in the year; tees up more to come at next week’s MWC…
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Partnerships & Alliances
Mavenir updates shared core at Slovak Telekom and T-Mobile Czech Republic
Systems consolidation and 5G SA update form part of new contract win for US vendor, expanding already sizeable Deutesche Telekom presence…
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: UK fibre competitors hit out with renewed vigour; what was in Allera’s CEO pitch?
Latest from BT and its ecosystem as competitors ramp up ambitions and investment challenge to Openreach fibre incumbency pretensions; Consumer boss Marc Allera backs Kirkby mandate (but what would he do “really quite interesting” if made CEO?); more…
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Partnerships & Alliances
BT rolls out AWS AI programming tool after trial success
CodeWhisperer platform said to be automating 12% of software development work in early deployments as BT Digital commits to a suite of generative AI tools for product development.
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Suppliers & SCM
EuroTeleSites switches to Sitetracker in bid for efficiency boost
A1 Telekom Austria spinout plans to complete migration of asset management software to a new, “state of the art” platform by the end of 2024.
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Weekly Briefings
Vodafonewatch Weekly: security concerns allayed as e& beds in
Latest from Vodafone and its ecosystem as TelcoTitans Q3 deep dive finds reasons for concern (M&A mire) and hope (Vodacom, UK, business, smaller OpCos); Ericsson deals may place it well for RAN mega-tender; e& tie-up marches on despite sovereignty siren; more…
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Innovation (R&D)
Vodafone adds Samsung buddy AMD to expand open RAN ecosystem
AMD selected as testing partner for Vodafone’s open RAN-powered data calling trial as operator looks to “introduce new silicon partners” to open RAN ecosystem, potentially furthering silicon industry vRAN architectural standoff…
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: networks in focus as Ericsson steps up, Huawei steps out
Latest from BT and its ecosystem as 5G networks take centre stage: slicing and standalone with Ericsson, Qualcomm; a Huawei rip-and-replace status update; API standardisation to draw down untapped 5G value; plus much more across the Group…
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Network & Infrastructure
Deutsche Telekom backs Fetch.ai in industrial blockchain drive
Group becomes first corporate partner of Web3-focused foundation established last year by Bosch and Fetch.ai.
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Network & Infrastructure
ETNO in existential crisis as Europe weighs response to global business threats
ETNO’s recent State of Digital Communications report portrayed the big beasts of European telecoms as open to change, but hamstrung by regulation and pondering long-term impact of letting infrastructure go.
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Weekly Briefings
Vodafonewatch Weekly: Q3 shows progress, amidst German mire and Africa turbo
Beyond overall positive Q3 results: e& continues to be embraced despite national security scrutiny (including joining RAN mega-tender); Vantage Towers deploys a CIO; Amdocs bags TPG; Spain gets the nod + Open Gateway…
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Network & Infrastructure
BT looks to APIs as it reaches network monetisation ‘inflection point’
Network Strategy Director Nektaria Efthymiou highlighted centrality of standardised network APIs to help BT break out of monolith mode, open up to developers, and chase the 50%–80%+ of untapped 5G value.
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Suppliers & SCM
Amdocs wins more Deutsche Telekom business in Austria, Hungary
Magyar Telekom signs up for Amdocs Policy to improve 5G monetisation.
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Content & TV
Telekom Deutschland targets cableco churn with MagentaTV refresh
German NatCo steps up offensive to win more TV customers from cable providers, ahead of nebenkostenprivileg removal.
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone to add e& to mega RAN tender
Procurement collaboration would be another dimension in strategic alliance between Vodafone and United Arab Emirates-based e&.
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Weekly Briefings
Infrawatch Weekly: end of the road for Digital 9, OneWeb’s space odyssey troubles continue
Digital 9 decides to wind down; OneWeb misses ‘global’ coverage targets; CityFibre aiming to get more active on M&A; more…