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Network & Infrastructure
Deep dive: Virgin Media Ireland’s fibre switch-up enabling 5Gbps and faster launches
Virgin Media leaps ahead on path to 10G. Strategic move driven by customer demand and enabled by €200m IT/network transformation, positioning Ireland as pacesetter in Liberty Global’s NetCo-ServCo fibre (r)evolution. TelcoTitans talks to commercial chief Paul Higgins. Read more…
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Strategy & Change
Orange Wholesale to launch 5G core NaaS offer in 2025
Orange Wholesale plans to help smaller mobile operators get on board with 5G SA.
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M&A
Tower group SBA presses on with M&A as it exits another market
US-based tower operator initiates sale of Colombian assets, with progress made on separate deals aimed at strengthening positioning in other key markets. Read more…
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: vendor deals aplenty as BT promotes partners
Latest from BT in a week in which Optiva, RingCentral, Equinix, Cisco, and more are namechecked in expanded or extended deals; Openreach CEO gets on the EV campaign trail; BT wins payout from dismissed class action appeal; more…
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M&A
Telecom deal gives Telefónica an Argentinean escape hatch
Telefónica announces a swift, abrupt — and seemingly final — exit from Argentina, progressing bid to scale back its regional footprint in Hispam, and reduce risk. While Telefónica Argentina sale attracts criticism from President Javier Milei, Telefónica indicates it is protected from any fallout.
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Network & Infrastructure
Germany: Altice seeks exit from Vodafone fibre JV as build-out slows — report
Beleaguered French investor said to be in talks with potential buyers to offload its half share in OXG Glasfaser, as €7bn venture’s build-out progresses slower than expected in stressed German fibre sector…
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People
DT brings former CFO Dannenfeldt back into fold
DT looks to appoint veteran Thomas Dannenfeldt to T-Mobile US’ Board of Directors.
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People
Telefónica wants Haas to guide German business through to 2028
Fresh, three-year contract handed to Telefónica Deutschland CEO, positioning him to deliver the German OB’s current three-year strategic programme and push further development.
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Weekly Briefings
UK Infrawatch Weekly: CityFibre turns positive, HS2 gets connected, GoFibre Gigabit win
Project Gigabit, a Sky alliance, and the XGS-PON upgrade were all flagged as positive signs of CityFibre progress as it presented its latest annual results.
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M&A
Liberty seeks strategic partner to fuel B2B services expansion plan
Execs lay out strategy to build out, and eventually monetise, outsourced services businesses Liberty Blume and Liberty Tech.
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Network & Infrastructure
MásOrange signs long-term deal with Cellnex in Spain
The much-trailered contract will run until 2048 with a renewal option in 2038, as Cellnex earns signature in competitive market.
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Network & Infrastructure
BT weaves Equinix into expanding Global Fabric platform
Network-as-a-service platform deployed at 30 Equinix data centres, with another ten in the offing.
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Financial & Performance
Fixed-up VM O2 looks to bounce back in 2025
UK operator forecasts a return to growth in the current year after spending much of 2024 strengthening its foundations.
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Weekly Briefings
Vodafonewatch Weekly: looking to the skies for mobile infill, satellite D2D
Latest from Vodafone, including: MWC previews, with drones and APIs among the early teases; Vi CEO promises capex uplift to underpin turnaround attempt; Vodafone–Three leadership team named, former Group CEO Nick Read finds another non-exec posting; more…
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Suppliers & SCM
Final hearing on DT’s €80m outsourcing dispute tabled for July
ISS, DT’s facilities management supplier in Germany, updates on long-running disagreement centring on major, long-term deal gained with operator in late-2010s. Danish outsourcer caveats cash flow forecast for FY25 amid uncertainty over proceedings’ outcome. Final arbitration hearing now tabled for July.
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Financial & Performance
Liberty Global targets $200m+ in savings through AI
The European group has quantified how much it expects to save in operating costs from deploying artificial intelligence across its telecoms assets over the next three years.
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Network & Infrastructure
Telefónica eases load with Helium’s OpenWiFi hotspots
In-depth: Investment’s “open-source” network of decentralised hotspots leveraged for mobile data offload through homegrown management platform. Tie-up initially focused on Mexico, to expand across LatAm markets, extend to other virtual operators, hopes to cut infra costs further…
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Strategy & Change
Euro data centres: infra crunch driving investors to new tier of hub cities — report
Consultancy Eight Advisory highlights rise of emerging challengers to Europe’s dominant ‘FLAP-D’ metros, aided by greater availability of power, land, and labour resource elsewhere. Learn more…
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone looks to Taara-equipped drones to fill in where fibre fails
Drone-based wireless optical communications tech seen as potential fix for fibre faults in areas where traditional fixed networks are susceptible to damage.
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Products & Services
Spanish MNOs, and Vodafone, trailer first use case from Open Gateway API lab
ViRe mobile application developed by LAUDE integrates Open Gateway APIs with a focus on personal safety.