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Partnerships & AlliancesT-Mobile says joint OpenAI platform now live, ‘paying dividends’
The Un-Carrier’s tie-up with OpenAI is now ‘touching customers’ and said to be bearing fruit by optimising handset upgrades…
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Analyst BriefingBTwatch Analyst Briefing: Watson passes the network strategy baton
Latest from BT and its interests, including quantum chat from Capacity Europe, fibre competition from INCA Summit, Howard Watson’s imminent departure and Greg McCall’s promotion, and more from Italy, Ofcom, and EE…
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Financial & PerformanceNew T-Mobile CEO wants to guzzle more gains
Q3 FY25: T-Mobile US’ results call sees incoming CEO Srini Gopalan toast the success of his predecessor Mike Sievert, and lay out plans to keep the good times going by targeting wide-scale user wins from rivals AT&T and Verizon. Sievert, meanwhile, signs off with a big quarter of growth across both its core mobile business and fledgling wireline growth segment.
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PeopleBoldyn CEO Leprince bids farewell to neutral host player
Leprince signals departure plan in a move described as a “highly emotional decision”, as he reflected on Boldyn’s transformation and accomplishments during his tenure. Search for successor kicked-off.
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Innovation30 years down, 5+ to go before BT’s quantum vision comes to life
Capacity Europe 2025: Senior Research Manager Andrew Lord remains optimistic about quantum secure communications, but sought-after commercial use cases still five-to-ten years away. QKD a valid ‘stepping stone’, and satellite may boost momentum, but supply chain ‘fragility’ remains a stumbling block…
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InterviewVoneus ‘plays chicken’ with banks and secures new funding
INCA Summit 2025: Macquarie and Voneus director Oliver Bradley indicates terms were renegotiated on Voneus’s existing £70m debt facility, and stakeholders injected further funds to secure the altnet’s future.
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TechnologyOrange plots more open RAN trials as tech gains in maturity
Network X: Atoosa Hatefi says Orange is confident that open RAN is closing the performance gap with traditional RAN.
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Analyst BriefingTelefónicawatch Analyst Briefing: Group eyes German reboot; VM O2 aims high on mmWave
M&A speculation continues to dominate the discourse around Telefónica, ahead of early-November’s strategy update, with the focus in recent days on Germany’s mobile market and UK’s fibre scene. Meanwhile, quantum encryption and handset financing players boost their capital resource within the partner ecosystem. Read more…
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Network & InfraOrange’s Trabbia: telcos need a DNA switch to meet resiliency challenge
Network X: The CEO of Orange Wholesale sees asset ownership and network software-isation as core principles underpinning future network resilience and strategic independence in an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment.
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Network & InfraT-Mobile ups B2B game with new dashboard and breakout tech
T-Mobile US continues next-gen enterprise product buildout under 5G Advanced umbrella. Latest releases are latency-focused routing app Edge Control and new B2B dashboard software T-Platform.
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Analyst BriefingEMEA Infrawatch Analyst Briefing: deep water fibre deployments; AI infra transfers
Latest on EMEA digital infra: EXA Infrastructure, Orange, and Vodafone progress subsea cable projects; Retelit finalise BT Italia acquisition; Cellnex offloads French data centre unit to Vauban; more…
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Strategy & ChangeTelefónica doing the maths on 1&1 tie-up: report
Report indicates the Spanish group is considering reigniting links with 1&1, Germany’s fourth telco, in a bid to revive its local fortunes. But both face a bewildering range of options (and challenges) as they seek to regain growth…
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Network & InfraEXA raises €1.3bn to drive network expansion, M&A ambitions
Further network expansion and acquisitions on the cards for EXA with latest fundraise, which follows the launch of several projects to grow its footprint over the past year…
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Network & InfraVodafone to fill Black Sea subsea infra blackspot
In collaboration with Partner Markets ally Vodafone Ukraine, Group begins €100m infra project connecting Black Sea nations, bypassing Russia.
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Venturing & InvestmentsImpact investor STOA fuels Atlas Tower’s Kenyan expansion plans
Africa-focused, French infra fund backs growing tower operator, supporting build acceleration and sustainable energy efficiency initiatives…
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Network & InfraTurkish MNOs splash $3bn on 5G spectrum ahead of 2026 services launch
Vodafone Turkey comes third of three in the country’s first 5G spectrum auction, spending around half that of its rivals on 700MHz and 3.5GHz licences.
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Network & InfraEurope moots UK tech tie-up on new-gen IRIS² satellite system
European Space Agency official signals openness to UK direct involvement in €10bn+ IRIS2 regional satellite mega-project and Starlink rival, which also has a defence aspect…
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Network & InfraUK MNOs bag equal share of mmWave spectrum in £39m auction
BT, VodafoneThree, and Virgin Media O2 share the spoils in Ofcom’s delayed auction, each committing £13m for 26GHz and 40GHz spectrum, but not all MHz are equal…
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M&AFrench telco trio unveil their SFR consolidation pitch
Orange, Bouygues, and Iliad confirm a long-rumoured move for troubled rival SFR, but a reported to have been knocked back by latter’s parent Altice.
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M&A‘We need to get on with it’: nexfibre boss wants to see altnet acquisition action
Fibreco chief suggests some investors will have to swallow losses on altnets as the industry goes into consolidation mode.