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Partnerships & Alliances
Saphety wins invoicing contract with Vodafone Hungary
Electronic billing specialist Saphety won a three-year contract to install and support an electronic invoicing system at Vodafone Hungary (VfH).
Partnerships & Alliances
Vodafone gives Hadoop the heave-ho, turns to Google
Vodafone nearly half-way through migrating its Hadoop‑based big data analytics platform, serving eleven countries, onto Google Cloud Platform. “Cloud-native” Neuron systems leans on Google’s expertise in AI and ML. Full migration from Hadoop to Neuron slated before 31 March 2020.
Content & TV
Vodafone bolsters play in European e-sports scene
Vodafone Spain cements e-sports strategy with sponsorship deal, Vodafone Germany follows suit.
Events
Höttges supports European enterprise push at Digital X
Germany’s move for shared European cloud infrastructure backed. CEO laments lack of European rivals to tech giants from America, Asia. TDE announces upcoming campus network products. NatCo signs strategic partnership with Teradata. T-Sys unveils new public and private cloud propositions.
Products & Services
T‑Mobile Poland adds Amazon Prime Video to broadband and multi‑play packages
T‑Mobile Poland (TMPL) added Amazon Prime Video to its recently-launched wireline broadband and multi‑play packages.
Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone’s Partner and Supplier People Moves, October 2019
Latest partner/supplier people movement highlights include: Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Red Hat.
People
Vodafone Group People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Durdana Achakzai, Ritesh Bhargava, Jon Buckthorpe, Louis DiCesari, Nitu Kaushal, Asif Meghani, Mark Rose, Ahu Tunc, Olatz Urroz.
Strategy & Change
Vodafone’s analytics team starts looking outward
Vodafone ready for long-trailered Location Intelligence services expansion. Five-year IT and organisational update ensures so-called ‘single version of truth’. IoT and security use-cases also in focus.
Partnerships & Alliances
BT Sport and Amazon to partner on coverage
Amazon’s limited coverage of live English Premier League (EPL) football will be available in pubs and clubs in the UK, through a partnership with BT Sport.
Content & TV
BT Sport is losing the rights to broadcast the Women’s Tennis Association
BT Sport is to lose the rights to the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), to Amazon.
Strategy & Change
DTW19: Another Vodafone Group signal of coming partner platform refit
Vodafone recognises need for improvement in partner collaboration, to fuel 5G success. Chief Systems Architect looking to reshape IT, to help open-up while protecting “secret sauce”. TM Forum and University of Surrey among collaborators.
Operations
BT Group scales new peaks with IT transformation expedition
The Da Vinci project is putting human-centric design at the core of BT’s IT approach, requiring a fundamental change in outlook for the telco. Higham’s programme helping BT cut IT costs by nearly 40%, while improving internal perceptions of the Group’s IT function through new services. Da Vinci approach ...
Strategy & Change
Telefónica/Vivo: opening Pandora’s box
CIO recounts experiences from digital overhaul of Brazilian operator’s sprawling IT operation.
Operations
Digital transformation (DTW19): culture change, reskilling crucial
Reskilling employees fundamental to Wind Tre’s digital transformation strategy. Cultural and organisational change critical for digital transformation to be adopted at scale and to succeed. Operators must change their corporate identity to attract vital new talent. Wind Tre CIO sceptical of vendor marketing of new technologies.
Partnerships & Alliances
Deutsche Telekom: introvert telcos plan mould-breaking 5G party (DTW19)
DT plans to step up “conversations” with partners in a bid to ensure 5G return-on-investment. Execs concede telcos remain “quite poor” on enabling collaboration. ’Fast telecoms’-vision mooted, with repeatability across numerous services, but can traditionally closed telcos deliver? Hints of increased focus on services long-tail, and beyond flagship tie-ups. ...
Network & Infrastructure
Operators, other industries struggle for 5G commonality
5G expectations have been raised, and now need to be met: lots of talk of potential, but monetisation not clear cut. Scepticism over network readiness for advanced, challenging applications, such as in gaming and sport. Supplier establishment again chided for dragging feet on harmonisation and cloud-ification; operators stuck in ...
People
Deutsche Telekom People Moves, June 2019
36 key people moves tracked and analysed. Bohle takes over delicate privacy role from Kremer.
Content & TV
Germany: O2 goes OTT for TV, again
O2 Germany is resetting its commercial video offering through a partnership with Waipu.tv that more closely resembles a conventional pay-TV product. Latest app-based service adopts a similar technological approach to earlier attempts to break into the market, but with beefed-up content and accessibility.