All Partnerships & Alliances articles – Page 75
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica links Osasuna with football tech
Smart shin pad provider Humanox nets deal with Club Atlético Osasuna and Telefónica for Spanish grassroots rollout.
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Products & Services
Radianz bulks up in blockchain with VALK partnership
Asset management services provider VALK adds its Corda-based blockchain product to BT’s Radianz Cloud.
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Network & Infrastructure
DT expands private 5G partnerships
Deutsche Telekom’s campus network push gets another four partners in AR, automation, and hardware.
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Innovation (R&D)
O2 joins call for UK to step up self-driving tests
O2 UK, Cisco, and partners recommended a UK cyber test facility for connected and autonomous vehicles, complete with allocated spectrum and a core and fibre backbone.
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Products & Services
Telefónica picks new banking buddy
Commerzbank’s comdirect to support refresh of O2 Germany’s O2 Banking service, after break-up of relationship with launch partner Fidor Bank.
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Innovation (R&D)
Operators prep for 5G reality with Qualcomm
Qualcomm’s OEM certification programme expected to enable establishment of a new XR device category. European operators predict performance and sports content rights can be leveraged to create popular new applications that will showcase 5G’s worth.
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Vodafone Czechs into SD-WAN space with VMware
Czechia deployment is first move in a national-level SD-WAN plan. OpCo’s pitch is around smoothing communications during COVID-19 pandemic. Group seeking to disrupt incumbent fixed-line operators with software-based networking services.
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone backs lobbyist drive for Huawei alternatives
New group effectively the political wing of operator-led efforts to develop an open RAN ecosystem, with major integrated network vendors conspicuously absent.
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BT and Vodafone down arms, talk post-crisis teamwork
Home-working seen as creating permanent new need for stronger networks covering UK homes, and potential for collaboration to deliver it. Industry cooperation seen as having played a key role in the robust management of changing demands on national infrastructure sparked by lockdown. Huawei takes a surprising dig at UK ...
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Vodafonewatch roundup — May-June 2020
The latest Vodafone Group news from around the world from Vodafonewatch #186. Group changes see Partner Market expansion; a sustainability pledge; and blockchain endeavours. In Europe: VfUK flagged partnerships in cyber security; VfD continues 5G work; VfIT gets Microsoft deal.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone takes seat on Open RAN policy board
US interests dominate the new Open RAN Policy Coalition, but Vodafone will have a board presence within the 30 member-strong lobbying group.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Nreal teams with hubraum for Mixed Reality accelerator
MR developer and DT tech partner Nreal ties-up with incubator hubraum to find “the next killer MR app” ahead of its Nreal Light commercial launch. hubraum feeding its XR startup obsession.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telcos see more cooperative post-crisis industry
Home-working creating a permanent new need for stronger networks covering the UK’s homes, and potential for collaboration to deliver it. Industry cooperation seen as having played a key role in the robust management of changing demands on national infrastructure sparked by lockdown.
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Enterprise (B2B)
BT’s Karonis: teamwork key for new normal
B2B partnerships seen as especially key in post-COVID era, but BT sees margins being squeezed by cloud tie-ups. Response to current disruption is providing operators with food for thought on how they can move fast, and fix things.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica, Vodafone support COVID-climate aid alignment
Telcos represented in UN-backed statement urging alignment of COVID-19 economic response with climate action. Magyar Telekom, GSMA, and Orange also pledge support.
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Products & Services
Vodacom goes 4WD for consultancy venture
SA providers Letsema and Urbian tied on Digital Smart Service play, joining international heavweights Accenture and Deloitte.
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Products & Services
O2 switches out banking partner
Fidor relationship, formed in 2016, does not appear to have set world alight.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica, Nokia partner on IoT-enabled supply chains
Group research arm among 21 partners to join EC-backed consortium for next-generation supply chain management, centred on the port of Valencia.
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Suppliers & SCM
Deutsche Telekom exec vents ecosystem frustrations
Chair of ETSI’s ZSM ISG calls for more purposeful collaboration between SDOs and open source communities. Frets that smaller software suppliers are excluded from standards input.
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Operators eye Hong Kong for mmWave sharing solution
Ways to solve small-cell cost conundrum still being pondered. DT among European operators pondering the prospect of emulating the approach adopted in Hong Kong to deliver efficiently built and cost-effective small cell coverage for 5G. Secondary node RAN sharing among operators could provide a sweet spot where low-cost build ...