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Partnerships & Alliances
O2 Germany deploys DAS at Munich HQ
CommScope’s ERA distributed antenna system installed at O2 Tower headquarters in Munich to provide indoor mobile coverage.
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone places 5G SA at heart of cloud gaming ambition
Vodafone and Ericsson trial 5G SA network slice for cloud gamers.
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M&A
MTN CEO: consolidation “inevitable” for South Africa despite Vodacom’s fibre challenge
Ralph Mupita expressed his surprise that Vodacom’s fibre consolidation proposal is facing regulatory blocks, but reiterated pro-consolidation stance.
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Network & Infrastructure
Anatel delays ruling on Vivo’s contentious Winity network-sharing deal
Decision on infra-sharing agreement hangs in the balance after telecoms regulator postpones decision until September as a result of lack of majority agreement — but full approval now granted by antitrust authority.
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Strategy & Change
Exclusive: Nokia tilts for neutral host leadership
In an interview with Michel Chbat, TelcoTitans delves into the Finnish vendor’s journey to understand and target the nascent neutral host market, and how it sees the flood of new business models and stakeholders impacting the communications ecosystem.
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Financial & Performance
Circle Gas turnover soars but expansive ambitions yet to materialise
Safaricom-backed clean cooking scaleup quadruples turnover against previous financial year but reports net loss. Now with refreshed leadership, finance, and international expansion ambitions…
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Suppliers & SCM
Germany seeks high-risk compromise as operators maintain reliance on Huawei
Vodafone and its peers may get time to wean themselves from Huawei dependency as Germany looks set to water down high-risk restrictions.
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Premium
Elsewhere in Vodafone Europe: Vodafone hits 90% 5G coverage in Germany
Vodafone hits 90% 5G coverage in Germany.
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: Newmark launches new data centre investment platform
Real estate advisory group launches new data centre investment platform. GoFibre and Lightning Fibre set for UK fibre network expansion.
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M&A
Digi signals interest in Orange–MÁSMÓVIL merger remedies
Digi CEO sees potential merger as transformative moment for the Spanish market.
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Network & Infrastructure
Safaricom CEO calls on government to bolster fibre protection
Peter Ndegwa calls on Ruto administration to list fibre cable assets as critical infrastructure.
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Strategy & Change
Telstra’s InfraCo sale off the table (for now)
CEO Vicki Brady sees growth opportunities for the standalone unit, fuelled by a “shift to the cloud and rapid AI adoption”.
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Financial & Performance
Vi customer losses continue, but financing options open
Parent pledges financing for operator as spectrum payment obligations close in.
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Public Affairs
Wales puts sale of regional fibre network on the table
Devolved body sounds out market interest in purchase of publicly owned network in North Wales, ahead of 2025 contract end point.
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodacom connects 2Africa in latest subsea expansion
Vodacom sets Mozambique landing station live as 2Africa progress continues.
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Partnerships & Alliances
BT and Qualcomm go next-gen with 5G test lab
Duo expands partnership to test new 5G feature and “next generation” services.
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Venturing & Investments
Banks pour another €120m into ruhrfibre build
DIF Capital Partners helps arrange new debt facility to support ruhrfibre rollout in Germany.
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Premium
Elsewhere in Vodafone Group: Vodafone extends subsea cable portfolio
Vodafone extends subsea cable portfolio with transatlantic crossing.
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Suppliers & SCM
‘Data is everything’: Quantexa supports Vodafone CX revamp
Vodafone’s Chief Data Officer Miryem Salah says Quantexa partnership is underpinning customer experience transformation project in the UK.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Deutsche Telekom sees SKT, Anthropic do heavy lifting on multi-lingual LLMs
Collaboration between South Korean operator and US-based AI startup to develop multilingual large language models for the benefit of the Global Telco AI Alliance, of which DT is a member.