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PeoplewatchDeutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: ex-Airtel innovation boss handed AI product remit
The latest strategic and senior changes at Deutsche Telekom, including top-level changes in the Group’s growing AI product organisation, T-Mobile’s IT team, and infra side businesses Lumos and Fiber Experts Deutschland.
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Strategy & ChangeBT International CEO goes ‘radical’, aims to ‘rip up the telco playbook’
Bas Burger offers a further glimpse into BT International’s roadmap, with a regional setup, multidisciplinary teams, and a sharper customer focus…
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PeoplewatchSchulman’s knife: BT procurement star looks Verizon-bound, supporting massive ‘turnaround’
In-depth: Verizon seems to be adding another European Galactico to its team, tapping BT Sourced founder Cyril Pourrat to spearhead a massive efficiency drive. New CEO Dan Schulman is targeting rapid elimination of $4bn in capex and $5bn in opex, and deployment of automation at scale. Pourrat offers battle-tested digital procurement strategies to a US-supersize turnaround story…
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PeoplewatcheuNetworks names new finance chief
European backbone fibre operator names Giancarlo Ferro as its new finance chief. CEO Marisa Trisolino says he will play a “key role” in its European expansion plans, fuelled by 2024 fundraise…
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PeoplewatchBT’s procurement chief Cyril Pourrat readies for exit
Five years after founding arms-length buying business BT Sourced, Cyril Pourrat prepares to move on. BT understood to opt against a direct replacement…
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PeoplewatchVodafone installs fresh CIOs in Czech Republic and Greece
Vodafone names Hilda László and Petr Brunclík as CIOs for its Czech and Greek OpCos respectively, continuing a wider refresh of its European IT leadership line-up.
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PeoplewatchTelefónica Peoplewatch: sustainability, security switches
The latest strategic and senior changes at Telefónica, as the Group sees departures of decarbonisation boss and lead on security products at Telefónica Tech.
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PeoplewatchT-Mobile fibre venture Lumos revamps leadership as CEO exits
Brian Stading, CEO at EQT–TMUS fibre joint venture Lumos, is to step down at the end of March 2026. Lumos has also appointed new operations and network leaders to help drive Lumos’ fibre expansion strategy…
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PeoplewatchBT Peoplewatch: AI guru brought in to ‘scale and enable’ tech
January 2026 update, including the entrance of a new AI director to drive “scaling and enabling”; transformation appointments at Networks and Business; another International top-team change; plus 20+ senior and strategic changes across the Group…
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PeoplewatchTower group Radius picks ex-Telefónica exec to lead strategy
Radius Global Infrastructure appoints Laura Fernández to a dual operations/strategy leadership role, seeking to bring decision-making closer to European clients as it seeks to continue expanding on the continent…
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PeoplewatchBosses now installed at DT’s new European tower carve-outs
Leaders now in place at DT’s startup tower interests in Croatia, Greece, and Hungary — helping the Group create a fresh bundle of assets that could form part of future European infra mega-merger.
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PeoplewatchDT picks new CEO to steer Mobility Solutions growth
Internal hire sees finance exec Dr. Christoph Wagner move to take helm of Telekom Mobility Solutions, and assume responsibility for management and electrification of the operator’s vast company car fleet, as well as related transport tech projects.
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PeoplewatchVodafone’s European satco takes step towards launch with first hire
‘SatCo’ joint venture with AST SpaceMobile drafts in Vodafone’s innovation head Daniel Thomas.
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PeoplewatchVodafone Peoplewatch: CSR influence secured, Ventures leadership renewed
January 2026 update: Vodafone sustains influence in the industry’s CSR alliance, adds a COO to recently acquired B2B services provider Skaylink, and names new Vodafone Ventures leadership…
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M&ASwisscom completes Vodafone Italy integration, network and IT up next
Vodafone Italy now formally subsumed into Swisscom’s Italian business Fastweb, a year after the acquisition was completed.
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PeoplewatchBT Peoplewatch: Openreach sharpens commercial edge with altnet exec
December 2025 update: BT adds more industry nous to aid transformation from the Strategy & Change organisation; BT International’s senior leadership team undergoes further early tweaks; and Openreach brings in an altnet exec to ‘sharpen’ its commercial edge…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica firms up plan for 5,500 Spanish job cuts
Group says it has secured a financially and strategically important deal with unions on large-scale redundancies in Spain, after initiating negotiations in November. Agreement looks set to shift Telefónica about a quarter of the way to headline spend reduction goal outlined under new Transform & Grow strategic plan.
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PeoplewatchTelefónica boss ends year with a final flourish of axe
Telefónica puts a final paint stroke on 2025’s drastic Exec Team refurnish with the announcement of finance boss Laura Abasolo’s departure. Her exit does not come as a shock given she was last one standing in the top lieutenant line-up of former Executive Chairman José María Álvarez-Pallete…
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PeoplewatchDeutsche Telekom Peoplewatch: top team tweaks at T-Mo
The latest strategic and senior changes at Deutsche Telekom, including more exec role rejigging by T-Mobile US CEO Srini Gopalan as he ups the operator’s focus on tech as a customer acquisition weapon against rivals. There are also changes at Group level on digital CX, and at German sub-brand Congstar, as DT moves to up its own game on tech-fuelled sales.
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Network & InfraCan AI-RAN succeed without open RAN? ‘Yes and no’, says Alliance Chair Choi
Interview: AI-RAN Alliance Chair (and ex-DT CTO) Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi assures that operators have a route to scaled adoption of the tech — no matter their level of legacy. T-Mobile US is seen as having ‘unique’ springboard for AI-RAN rollout given its ‘greenfield-like’ position in 5G era, post-Sprint, and is expected to use the 2028 Olympics to showcase early wins.