All Sovereign articles – Page 2
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Products & ServicesDT extends AI voice value-add push to business clients
Operator flags plans for release of new range of AI-powered services in coming months, principally targeting Germany’s vast SME market. Mistral AI, AudioCodes, and n8n are among DT’s supporting tech partners.
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Partnerships & AlliancesEuropean telcos change course on D2D after licence rethink
Reports raise prospect of a new D2D platform that could provide a European alternative for next-gen services, with telcos said to be eyeing a slice of 2GHz MSS spectrum under contentious new EU allocation plan.
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NetworkUK satco Open Cosmos lands role in national defence comms push
UK-based satellite scaleup to provide space-based connectivity for national defence network. CEO Rafel Jordà Siquier says the contract marks “stamp of approval” for its strategy, as the satco seeks to expand beyond Earth observation and into the direct-to-device comms sector.
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NetworkOHB lands €1bn SES contract as Europe’s IRIS² advances
Europe’s IRIS² satellite programme has moved into execution mode, with OHB securing a billion-euro contract to build 18 satellites for the constellation amid growing demand for sovereign communications capabilities.
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M&AOrange expands defence unit with private 5G platform acquisition
Orange looks to tap growing demand for ‘sovereign’ connectivity through the acquisition of Dome, a specialist private 5G platform serving defence and critical operations.
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NetworkMTN advances ‘integrated’ infra vision with data centre JV
Operator firms up data centre joint venture with Emirati data centre investor, with initial plans to build capacity in Nigeria and South Africa. Move sees MTN advance data centre expansion plans as part of Ambition 2030 strategy.
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NetworkTrusted agentic AI: DT and Vodafone automate identity management for sovereign-ready network compliance
Translating dense legal jargon into network access rules with telco-grade IAM (identity and access management) traditionally takes weeks of manual engineering with error risk. Explore how Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone are applying ‘governed intelligence’ and a “Legal LLM” to shrink this critical infrastructure compliance latency to hours, with zero trust and human-in-the-loop, unlocking efficiencies and new high-value sovereign revenue streams.
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NetworkTelefónica venture freed to make Gigafactory bid
Operator gains EC nod to establish AI data hub joint venture with Spanish partners including Santander, Multiverse Computing, and ACS.
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Analyst BriefingOrangewatch: now-consolidated MásOrange quick to make mark
Analyst Briefing: bringing together the latest on Orange from around TelcoTitans and beyond, including Group execs being upbeat on MásOrange despite competitive pressures; a new data centre joint venture with Morrison; and MásOrange denying rumours of ‘RANco’ plans with Vodafone Spain…
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NetworkEU fires starting pistol on €30bn AI Gigafactory bidding process
Bloc moves to get construction of new mega data centres underway next year with provision of funding, as well as procurement and supplier deals. EU flags aims to balance sovereign ambitions with building out “at speed”…
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone joins UK rivals to create sovereign AI model
Vodafone becomes third telco to partner Cosine on development of alternative, sovereign AI model for software development in mission-critical use-cases. Tie-up sees Vodafone join telco peers BT and Telefónica Tech UK&I in backing UK’s purported “first fully sovereign frontier AI model”…
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AnalysisReality check: assessing telco claims of Europe’s High-Risk Supplier crackdown cost — Strand Consult
Guest analysis: with 30% EU exposure remaining, concentrated on 5G RAN, specific countries and three big telcos, John Strand considers media and industry warnings of HRS rip-and-replace costs overstated, evidencing Denmark, the UK and other European markets as showing transition can be managed without derailing 5G rollout. In an age of national security, he also deems it essential for securing future mission-critical contracts.
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M&AFrance’s Scaleway bulks up cloud platform with Qarnot buy
French cloud provider eyes data centre and services expansion through acquisition of Qarnot, having identified potential synergies and alignment on heat recycling as key benefits to the buy.
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NetworkP3 builds a RAN digital twin for Germany, using DT’s T Cloud
German consultancy is developing a sovereign RF digital twin that it says could help MNOs slash network optimisation costs and gain better visibility into increasingly complex mobile networks. Platform will combine crowdsourced network performance data with operator OSS and configuration data to predict the impact of network changes.
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NetworkVodafone bets on ‘hybrid’ future to tap growing sovereign cloud demand
Group’s CTO Scott Petty expects telcos to win when offering ‘hybrid’ sovereign cloud setups, operating hyperscaler tech in parallel with local controls and sovereign governance. How big is sovereign cloud opportunity? “The jury’s out”, he says…
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Partnerships & AlliancesDT, Orange, VM O2, Vodafone join new European advertising venture
The European Media Marketplace is established with the ambitious aim of providing a counterweight to dominant US tech giants in the digital advertising space.
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Analysis5G at the heart of next-gen military comms — ACMOSS founder
Guest analysis: Telecom Expert Voice and Réseau Radio du Futur (RRF) architect Guillaume Lambert considers 5G critical to addressing new and emerging defence demands — but the market will only open to telcos committed to zero trust, ‘clean’, sovereign networks…
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NetworkTelefónica ‘completes’ Spanish edge site rollout
Operator activates all 17 edge nodes envisaged under Edge Plan, with “modular platform” for businesses to access infrastructure and a range of other digital services. Rollout sees the Group seek to continue expanding B2B services portfolio to help achieve Transform & Grow targets…
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Partnerships & AlliancesBT gets in on sovereign frontier AI as gov pitches UK as ‘AI maker, not taker’
BT enters the sovereign AI breach as one of a cohort supporting Cosine’s Lumen Sovereign project to build and train a frontier AI model exclusively on UK soil. Government gets in on the action by providing crucial sovereign compute resource, along with a wave of parallel sovereign AI announcements…
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Products & ServicesDT adds n8n’s workflow software to growing AI enterprise portfolio
Operator adds AI-powered workflow automation platform from investment n8n to its enterprise portfolio, as the Group continues push to create “full suite” of AI products for business customers.
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