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Partnerships & AlliancesDT strengthens Perplexity ties to expand AI Phone capabilities
Operator brings scaleup’s Comet AI browser to Germany for Perplexity Pro subscribers, with support through DT’s ambitious AI Phone devices, advancing the pair’s pre-existing collaboration (and investment)…
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Partnerships & AlliancesVirgin Media O2 smartens up fibre rollout with IQGeo and Deepomatic combo
As IQGeo completed an acquisition of Deepomatic earlier this month, Virgin Media O2 emerged as one of the first operators to use their combined geospatial software and computer vision software tools to speed its fibre rollout.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVi strengthens IBM ties with AI Innovation Hub launch
Indian operator to collaborate with longstanding It partner on developing new AI-based solutions. Accelerating time-to-market and giving its operations teams new tools are among Vi’s goals with the new Hub…
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Partnerships & AlliancesBT expands AWS deal for five more years
The cloud services giant flags the latest strategic agreement with BT as a critical step towards network autonomy.
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MarketingBT opts for Uncommon to take brand ‘beyond advertising’
New brand chief Cilesta van Doorn hails Uncommon Creative Studio as the agency of choice to cement the BT logo in “modern Britain”.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodacom, Airtel sign Africa’s latest network sharing deal
Operator duo sign network infra sharing agreement for DRC, Mozambique, and Tanzania as continent’s telcos join hands to expand reach, lower costs…
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Network & InfraVodafone’s Nadia Benabdallah: ‘the real leap lies in autonomous networks’
Having seen the Group’s networks evolve from 3G to 5G SA over a 30-year career, Milan-based network strategy chief says the real benefits will come with deployment of autonomous networking…
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Partnerships & AlliancesCellnex snaffles another post-M&A telco win with expanded Telefónica deal
Telefónica strengthens ties with Spanish tower provider via deal that expands footprint and supports operator’s access relationship with up-and-comer Digi Spain.
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Partnerships & AlliancesOrange expands OpenAI tie-up to add weight to Africa focused models
Orange claims to be the only telco to be given early access to OpenAI’s latest open‑weight reasoning models.
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M&ALiberty Blume ignites M&A growth plan with insurance buy
Following an agreement to acquire PHL Insurance Brokers, Liberty Global’s business services spin-up is on the lookout for further strategic M&A or partnerships to grow into a $1bn business.
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Network & InfraBelgium’s fibre catch-up plan: Orange and Proximus team in south
Telco pair formalise a mutual fibre buildout arrangement covering less urban areas of Belgium’s Walloon Region.
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PeoplewatchTelefónica brings boss of partner Atento onto board
More new faces join Spanish group’s Board of Directors as Anna Martínez and Mónica Rey (the CEO of outsourcing partner Atento) come in for two departing independent members.
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Network & InfraSpanish energy giant Iberdrola expands into data centres
Ireland’s Echelon teams up with Spanish energy group to collaborate on data centre development in the latter’s domestic market, with first project in Madrid to become the latest 100MW+ facility in the country…
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B2BTelefónica Tech takes Perplexity into Spanish B2B
Building on Telefónica’s Perplexity offering for consumers, Telefónica Tech has teamed with ‘$18bn’ AI search scaleup to provide its enterprise software version to B2B customers in Spain.
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Suppliers & SCMVodacom Tanzania swaps Nokia for Huawei in RAN overhaul
Parent Group’s CEO Shameel Joosub says “much more attractive offer” from Huawei led to initiation of a major RAN rip-and-replace project.
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Analyst BriefingVodafonewatch Analyst Briefing: deals driving network, security upgrades
Latest from Vodafone, including a spectrum fee reprieve; SecOps potential with $1bn partner Google Cloud; DOCSIS development in the Netherlands; more from Turkey, Kenya, South Africa, elsewhere…
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OperationsDT ‘holds keys’ to data sovereignty in Google Cloud migration
Operator is moving a swathe of data to Google Cloud with sovereignty controls engineered in partnership with T-Systems. It hopes to replicate the safeguards for other enterprises in regulated industries.
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OperationsEfficiency-focused EuroTeleSites switches on Sitetracker
CEE wireless infra player says it brought fresh asset management platform live in May, enabling better management of its 13,700 sites.
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B2BVodafone building SecOps platform with $1bn partner Google Cloud
Group cybersecurity architecture lead Emma Smith updates on the $1bn deal with Google Cloud as the pair work on security operations services for both internal and commercial users.
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Network & InfraVodafoneZiggo picks Teleste to support bet on next-gen DOCSIS
VodafoneZiggo partners with Teleste for a nationwide 1.8GHz upgrade, advancing its DOCSIS-led broadband future…