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Partnerships & AlliancesTelefónica and Indra said to eye Tess-style cyberdefence alliance
Further signals emerge that the two minority-state-owned groups are coming closer into alignment as telco and defence tech converges and the Madrid seeks to build up the country’s industrial and military might.
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Financial & PerformanceDT ups the intensity to maintain momentum
FY25: DT’s divisional leaders are being pressured to maintain progress on spend efficiency and commercial impact as the Group seeks to keep its business ‘flywheel’ spinning in an uncertain and challenging macro and market environment.
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Financial & PerformanceDT FY25 spend: capex lid kept tight amid macro and market murk
Group evidently remains micro-focused on cost efficiency across opex and capex, with continued belief in potential of AI and caution on fibre spend.
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M&ASFR takeover: Pressure mounts as talks enter ‘stoppage time’
France: reports say Bouygues Telecom, Iliad, and Orange could make a new bid for their domestic rival by the end of April.
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Network & InfraOpenreach hoovers up more Project Gigabit deals after altnets pull out
Openreach picks up subsidised build after Freedom Fibre and FullFibre withdraw. Move comes as altnets continue to pull out of Project Gigabit arrangements amidst financial constraints…
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Network & InfraVodafone’s Pairpoint plots tower-based edge compute to meet AI demand
Vodafone’s Web3 joint venture partners Nillion and Chainlink to remove financing as a blocker to cell tower-based edge data centre build, providing ‘trusted’ returns to investors and ‘balancing’ the AI economy…
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M&AOrange nets EU clearance to absorb MásOrange
Regulatory approval of the €4.25bn deal was clearly a perfunctory affair, and will give back Orange full control of its Spanish operations.
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PeoplewatchVodafone Peoplewatch: Vi appoints AI chief to lead ‘intelligent techco’ transition
April 2026 update, including: new AI Strategy Architect gets a wide-ranging transformation brief in India; Safaricom fills two-year IT Director vacancy; senior departures in business resilience, external affairs, and the Vodacom boardroom; Vodafone IoT Americas further strengthened; and more…
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Network & InfraOrange’s Hardouin: 6G needs to stay flexible in fast-evolving AI era
Networks and infra research lead Eric Hardouin says it’s important not to “carve everything in marble” because AI can still change what is required of future 6G networks.
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Suppliers & SCMTomorrow Street fast-tracks quantum techco Arqit into Vodafone orbit
Quantum-safe security scaleup Arqit has been named a Tomorrow Street portfolio company after graduating from Scaleup X programme, seeking closer Vodafone ties and enterprise opportunities…
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Partnerships & AlliancesDT expands Starlink ties into German B2B comms
DT selects Elon Musk-led satellite operator to provide enterprise broadband services in Germany, seeking to strengthen network resilience and rural coverage. Operator taking selective approach to Starlink deployment in Europe, compared with broad-ranging tie-up in USA…
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M&ATelefónica moves to exit Mexico in latest Hispam sell-off
Telefónica lands agreement to offload Mexican operations to Melisa Acquisition, marking the latest move in the operator’s accelerated Hispam retreat…
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OperationsOpenreach onboards AI agents in bid to cut missed appointments
Customer service lead Chris Herbert talks up ‘unified, proactive, AI-powered’ customer engagement strategy, underpinned by NiCE agents.
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Network & InfraBT adopts NVIDIA’s telco LLM in pursuit of autonomous, intent-based networks
NVIDIA’s large telco model is playing a ‘significant’ role in BT’s journey to network autonomy, providing a data sandbox in which the Group can conduct AI R&D. Data & AI lead Séainín McCoy considers the use of synthetic data to be paramount for maximisation of RoI and mitigation of risk…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica eyes more areas to chop spend, concoct cash flow
FY25: After spending much of last year stewing over the ingredients of its new Transform & Grow revival plan, Telefónica indicates it is now ready to begin cooking. The five-year programme looks set to kick off with some substantial wins on opex savings and capital intensity.
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Strategy & ChangeDT’s staid board adds tech clout
Deutsche Telekom injects software and AI expertise into its Supervisory Board, appointing SAP CTO Philipp Herzig and former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke…
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Network & InfraVi accelerates 5G rollout with ‘strategic densification’ model
CTO Jagbir Singh outlines a “phase and calibrated” 5G rollout approach as India’s Vi attempts to close the gap to its faster-moving rivals.
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PeoplewatchTelefónica Peoplewatch: priority rethink prompts senior changes in B2B, Germany
February 2026–April 2026 update: Telefónica continues to seek AI gain with hires at Vivo and Telefónica Tech; new boss in Germany makes wide-scale senior changes to get a closer grip on go-to-market; and at Board of Directors level, shareholders approve hire of Australian entrepreneur Jane Thompson.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone gives Partner Markets a fresh lick of paint, installs new leadership
Jan Holzberg replaces Petr Dvořák to lead Partner Markets, which has been rebranded to Vodafone Partners.
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PeoplewatchT-Mobile Poland taps parent DT for new tech boss
Jovan Ćetković, DT’s lead on European tech integration, relocates to Warsaw to become CTIO at T-Mobile Poland. Move follows Alexander Jenbar’s late-2025 switch in other direction, to head tech in Germany.