All Partnerships & Alliances articles – Page 18
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Younited partnered to expand credit offering
Telefónica to provide new “instant credit” loans through partnership with Spanish credit platform Younited.
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O2 taps Nokia to boost energy-efficiency efforts
AVA for Energy SaaS solution selected to reduce energy expenditure across the radio access network.
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Partnerships & Alliances
T-Mobile MONEY partner secures two-pronged contract extension
White-label banking partnership extended until 2025.
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DT’s Comfort Charge EV buddy starts insolvency proceedings
Troubled EV charging solutions provider Compleo on the lookout for M&A.
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People
ruhrfibre brings in another ex-Vodafone Germany exec
Ex-Vodafone exec Christian Klein joins ruhrfibre in double role as COO and CIO.
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Venturing & Investments
InfraVia, Iliad close out deal for Polish fibre JV
InfraVia Capital Partners acquires 50% of Iliad Group’s PŚO, which aims to cover “half of all Polish households”.
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BT shines light on ‘UK-first’ medical delivery drone trial
BVLOS trial takes place between NHS Trust sites in Coventry and Rugby, involving 130 flights across more than 1,900km.
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Telefónica Argentina boosts fibre footprint with Iplan
Operator seals deal focused on expanding its Buenos Aires fibre footprint.
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BT renews partnership with Optiva for next gen services
Telco extends partnership with Canada-based telecoms software player to “flexibly create service applications and simplify deployment”.
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Strategy & Change
BT and Three go “unilateral” in MBNL refocus
Sites to be upgraded independently in pursuit of autonomy, efficiency.
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Network & Infrastructure
Rakuten + Rocky Linux = open RAN economics and sustainability at scale
Switching lanes from Red Hat to Rocky Linux for its cloud telco OS is designed to keep Rakuten’s disaggregated network model sustainable at scale.
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Nabiax offloads ex-Telefónica data centres to Actis
Asterion–Telefónica JV shifts operational focus to Spain with sale of North and Latin American data centres to investment firm Actis.
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BT looks beyond UK with broader AWS alliance
BT Digital beefs up AWS partnership with expanded IoT remit.
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BT takes ITV and Channel 4 to the cloud
BT signs multimillion‑pound contract to enable “start‑to‑finish” cloud processing for regionalised TV content across all of D3&4’s Freeview channels.
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Vodafone embraces network-based weather forecasting
Telco opening up its network to enable rainfall monitoring solution, underpinned by technology from Wireless DNA that analyses electromagnetic waves to measure atmospheric humidity and precipitation levels.
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Elsewhere in Openreach: Openreach signs Ferns Group for manhole contract
Openreach signs Ferns Group for manhole contract.
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Telefónica and Qwilt team for “hybrid” open CDN drive
New alliance will open up Telefónica’s Movistar Plus+ CDN assets to Qwilt’s content provider partners and expand Telefónica’s distribution network to Qwilt sites.
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BT signs MEC deal with AWS
BT continues to drive cloudification of mobile services with EE’s 4G and 5G infrastructure set to combine with AWS cloud to facilitate low-latency, high-bandwidth IoT use-cases.
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Elsewhere in Brazil: Vivo chooses Oracle Cloud as new cloud based data host
Vivo chooses Oracle Cloud as new cloud‑based data host
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M&A
Liberty CEO ‘in M&A talks with CityFibre’
Not a done deal. Discussions are preliminary and large-scale consolidation in UK altnet market likely to attract sharp scrutiny from regulators.