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Strategy & Change
Telefónica Peru seeks giant leap from Project Apollo
Tecnotree-supported modernisation programme enabling more time to be taken in disentangling “fantastic mess” of legacy point solutions. Business wanted digital platform refresh to match cadence of webscale service development. Project held up as case study by TM Forum, highlighting open integration.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Systems Solutions: Dutch New Factory Campus package launched
DT IoT targets startups with new NB-IoT enabler and T-Sys expands Industry 4.0 play to Dutch manufacturers.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in T-Mobile US: TMUS looks to puchase Shenandoah; Test Drive initiative gets a bump
TMUS expands customer acquisition campaign but customer rewards go awry; static continues between operators and FCC over data coverage claims.
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Products & Services
MagentaGaming goes live
MobiledgeX set to be involved in future releases. DT investment RemoteMyApp is providing the streaming technology. Service not yet available on Apple iOS mobile devices.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Deutsche Telekom Group: media speculation and hubraum startups
UK media revives the ‘will they won’t they’ BT–DT love story
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Germany: Telekom Deutschland meets BNetzA broadband target
Elsewhere in Germany Source: Kostya Golinchenko / Unsplash Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency/BNetzA) confirmed that Telekom Deutschland (TDE) had met an interim target of providing 50Mbps mobile broadband speeds across 97% of Germany, by population, ahead of a 30 September 2020 deadline imposed after it and ...
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Deutsche Telekom's Europe: Deep Instinct added to T-Sys Poland offering
Inevitable Czech clash as ČTÚ confirms auction conditions. Hrvatski Telekom’s Optima distractions continue.
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Strategy & Change
Höttges goes on Huawei defensive
DT gambles on Germany taking neutral stance on Chinese supplier. High hopes open RAN will help diversify the ecosystem, but systems not ready yet.
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Public Affairs
Data leak hits T-Mobile Netherlands customers
IT service provider Conduent implicated in another data breach. TMNL’s former Vodafone Thuis customers affected.
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Strategy & Change
Q2 FY20: Un-Carrier quickly finds stride after H1’s bumps
New CEO and CFO team remain bullish on business growth opportunities, despite challenges of Sprint integration, COVID-19, and change of leadership. TMUS moots a period of commercial aggression against rivals in H2, working off economic downturn and 5G differentiation. B2B expansion also back (yet again) on agenda. Reported surpassing ...
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Premium
Guidance: Deutsche Telekom shows off its super-sized stats
Up-sized Group sees earnings coming in above €30bn.
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Strategy & Change
Q2 FY20: Gopalan backed to solve Germany paradox
Transferred from Europe segment, new CEO is being asked to bridge multiple, competing business objectives at Telekom Deutschland, as Group takes a fresh look at how to move its European-based businesses forward. Höttges’ comments suggest efficient fibre rollout remains a puzzle the operator has yet to get to the ...
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Strategy & Change
Q2 FY20: Steadying European ship now a top DT priority
With the appointment of Dominique Leroy to lead Europe segment, DT appears to be ensuring it can attack regional revival from all sides. An outsider but not a maverick — Group continues ‘internationalisation’ of upper hierarchy but evidently does not want to rock boat in a time of crisis. ...
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Spend: Deutsche Telekom enters de-leveraging phase
Höttges could reach for famed cookie jar to help bring down borrowing after US splurge.
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Network & Infra
UK’s 4G-based Emergency Services Network faces more delays
Airwave unlikely to be switched off until 2024, possibly 2025. EE on track with 4G network.
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Network & Infra
Deutsche Telekom’s bumpy journey to software telco: Part II
First commercial Access 4.0 deployments imminent, but project far from completion. Silicon not yet ready for speedy service introduction. Prototypes of a converged Access 4.0 architecture not expected until 2022. Making sure organisational change keeps up with technology advances a constant challenge.
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Network & Infra
BT, Stirling to launch Scottish Living Laboratory
BT named technology partner for University-led climate monitoring project. EE’s 5G network put to work.
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Operations
BT–EE meld: more execs become part of the mothership
BT’s de-duplication effort accelerates with more than two thirds of EE’s operations staff being swallowed up by its parent Group since April 2019.
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Headline numbers: relying on US
USA growth now an even more dominant part of DT’s world. Management remain keen to ensure strength in Europe is not overlooked.
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Network & Infra
Deutsche Telekom’s bumpy journey to software telco: Part I
Choi highlights importance of end-to-end service orchestration and automation… but accuses some open-source industry bodies of work duplication and low ambition. Resistance to disaggregation from established vendors still a problem… but promise of new business models, lower TCO, and faster time-to-market convince DT that software journey is necessary.