People – Page 5
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PeopleINWIT shortlists new board members following buyout
New board to be appointed at shareholder meeting on 4 October.
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PeopleVodacom installs boss for soon-to-launch TowerCo
South African group appoints regional American Tower figure to lead TowerCo set up.
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M&ATIM’s INWIT sale forces Board overhaul
Entire INWIT Board of Directors resigns, with replacements to come in October.
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PeopleShared Rural Network names new Director
Bryn Jones named SRN Director at MNO-backed joint venture Digital Mobile Spectrum Ltd.
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PremiumTelefónica people moves: German fibre JV swaps CTIO
Unsere Grüne Glasfaser brings de Santos in for Vílchez, whose ‘development’ work has come to a close.
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PremiumDeutsche Telekom people moves: T-Mobile names Digital lead for enterprise
Shaikh takes Digital reins at T-Mobile for Business to drive US enterprise and public sector growth ambitions. T-Systems Netherlands reshuffles leadership pack with new Country Board. German fibre JV GlasfaserPlus completes management line-up.
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PeopleTelefónica-Allianz fibre JV adds to management team
Unsere Grüne Glasfaser names Jörn Schoof Chief Commercial Officer, set to utilise experience in regional fibre builds. UGG leadership team now filled out.
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PeopleDT, IFM appoint chief exec for fibre JV
Former Etisalat and Telefónica marketing executive appointed to lead DT’s full-fibre side hustle. Appointment made formal after spell working on setup of JV behind scenes.
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Venturing & InvestmentsRevealed: DT’s fibre linkup with ex-Deutsche Glasfaser bosses
Group investment arm DTCP takes large minority stake in startup Fiber Experts Deutschland. Venture sees DT link up with former Deutsche Glasfaser execs Uwe Nickl and Dr. Stephan Zimmermann. Ex-DT executive Wolfgang Kniese involved in venture’s management.
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PeopleEx-Telekom Deutschland CEO takes chair at altnet
Niek Jan van Damme appointed Chairman at NGN Fiber Network to support expansion ambitions under Eurofiber partnership. van Damme the second ex-Deutsche Telekom name to join the altnet this year.
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OperationsINWIT targets faster growth with management reshuffle
New Technology and Operations department created, headed temporarily by CEO Giovani Ferigo. Ferigo will relinquish the role once a CTO is appointed, expected “shortly”. Senior tech executives Massimo Giuseppe Scapini and Elisa Patrizi pushed out.
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PremiumElsewhere in Telefónica Infra-Tech: Asterion hits the M&A trail
Infra buddy Asterion on the acquisition trail; NB-IoT ecosystem expands; partner signed for Mexican security expansion.
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PeopleOpenreach names new fibre delivery guy
Change at top of Fibre & Network Delivery unit as Matthew Hemmings comes in for Kevin Murphy. Internal hire sees Hemmings take lead of team focused on expanding Openreach’s UK-wide fibre network.
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PeopleTelekom Deutschland’s fibre JV fills co-CEO vacancy
Glasfaser Nordwest taps co-parent EWE for new leadership appointment. Former incumbent swaps one German FTTP specialist for another. Telekom–EWE business expands product marketing to new locations.
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InterviewOpenreach Tech team powers UK fibre build
CTIO Colin Lees shares impact of tech overhaul on network build. More effort on provisioning and repair in three-year transformation project. Openreach owns IT and Network strategy decisions; BT Digital and BT Networks are key suppliers. Three-supplier strategy for FTTP advances with Adtran, Huawei and Nokia.
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PeopleOpenreach’s Milligan on importance of rural fibre
Openreach executive sees fibre deployment as key to reversing rural to urban migration. Building broadband is not enough: more education is required to ensure higher take-up. Need to ‘join the dots’ to ensure infrastructure and economic programmes are properly implemented.
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PeopleVantage Towers taps Ericsson sales guy for Germany push
Peter Zehetner joins Vodafone’s TowerCo spinout as Managing Director in Germany. Formerly Ericsson’s Commercial Director in western Europe, Zehetner brings years of sales experience to the Vantage team. Winning business from Drillisch, Germany’s would-be fourth MNO, high on the things-to-do-list.
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PeopleVantage Towers CEO says he’s no Vodafone lackey
Vivek Badrinath emphasises operational and strategic independence from Vodafone. CEO claims Europe is 20 years behind the USA in commercialisation of towers. Newspaper interview used to defend upcoming listing on Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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PeopleOpenreach seeks people power to fuel full-fibre
BT infrastructure division announces 5,300 new jobs for 2021, although 2,800 of them will be created within subcontractors. Capacity needed to increase weekly rate of full-fibre premises passed from 40,000 to 50,000.
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PremiumVodafone people moves: European towercos get new leadership
Three new managing directors at European infrastructure spin-offs in Germany, Ireland, and Spain. VfUK CEO Nick Jeffery joins COVID-19 Recovery Commission. Vodacom and Safaricom find temporary replacements for outgoing execs.