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Interview: As of February 2027, PSTN will be no more in the UK, but there remain millions of legacy connections. Gamma has deployed its Edge Migrate service to help partners convert a foreboding migration challenge into an enhanced upsell opportunity for voice and security. Learn more…

Partnerships & Alliances
BT Business launches AIOps offensive with Accenture
Telco fires starting gun on ‘multi-year’ programme with longstanding IT partner, seeking to overhaul business processes and develop new AI-powered enterprise products. Pair aiming to build on BT’s prior work in AIOps to deliver improved resilience and new capabilities, both internally and externally…
Strategy & Change
Age of outcomes: Gamma empowering SPs with global expansion, portfolio diversification
As turn-of-the-decade markets mature, communications platform provider Gamma is charting a new course for its service provider partners, leveraging strategic expansion into Asia-Pacific and promoting portfolio diversification to differentiate and unlock new revenue streams.
B2B
New chapter opens for Orange Business with new products, and a new partner
Orange Business has unveiled a wave of AI‑driven products and a major new partnership with Tech Mahindra, signalling a shift toward sovereign cloud, trusted AI agents, and next‑generation collaboration tools…
Products & Services
BT Business launches UK sovereign voice with Cisco
BT adds to 35-year Cisco collab as it adds its first product to nascent UK sovereign platform.
Network & Infra
From defence to attack: CSG’s blueprint for telco AI transformation
Interview: Telcos risk losing to nimbler rivals unless they accelerate AI readiness. CSG argues that operators must simplify legacy customer systems, speed service innovation, and nurture scalable ecosystems — or face losing strategically vital B2B growth opportunities whilst defending declining legacy markets. Learn more…
Innovation
Telcos demonstrate breakthroughs in quantum teleportation
The future quantum internet took big steps forward this week as separate teams at Deutsche Telekom in Germany and TELUS in Canada announced milestone demonstrations in quantum teleportation.
Suppliers & SCM
Orange Business ties with Cisco as it preps for quantum threats
Orange’s B2B division wants to ensure that its global networks are quantum-safe as soon as possible.
Network & Infra
Deutsche Telekom leads the way to ‘quantum internet’
German operator and startup Qunnect are betting on entanglement as an enabling capability for a future ‘quantum internet’. A recent joint research project achieved what they see as a breakthrough in the push towards live use of quantum comms in metropolitan fibre networks.
Strategy & Change
BT 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…
Marketing
Deutsche Telekom’s ‘T’ remains telco top dog
Estimated worth of Deutsche Telekom’s T logo rises to nearly $100bn in latest Brand Finance report, as group continues to ride wave of growth stateside.
Partnerships & Alliances
Orange expands OpenAI tie-up to add weight to Africa focused models
Orange claims to be the only telco to be given early access to OpenAI’s latest open‑weight reasoning models.
Interview
Interview: CDIO on Orange Business’ pivot to greenfield, ‘AI first’ tech stack
Exclusive: Hriday Ravindranath explains thinking behind ambitious shift onto entirely new B2B IT stack for AI-era products as Orange Business reinvents itself built on digital-first, AI-native platform principles, underpinned by ‘design partnerships’ with Blue Planet, CSG, ServiceNow and Splunk…
Network & Infra
Orange’s Javaid instils hyperscaler ethos to scale B2B service sales
FutureNet World: Orange Business has so far onboarded 13 vendors to its NaaS-based Evolution Platform to create a mix‑and‑match approach to services for enterprise customers…
Analyst Briefing
BTwatch Weekly: BT’s branding u-turn; EE leads renewed ESN charge
Latest from BT and its ecosystem, including a reversal of BT’s consumer branding strategy; new timelines for the Emergency Services Network migration; and next phase of MAUD testing lined up…
Content & TV
BT’s MAUD to target content super peaks as it scales up
Next-gen IP transmission tech delivers positive results in first live tests, teeing up trials of personalised ads for live and on-demand content.
Analyst Briefing
BTwatch Weekly: vendor deals aplenty as BT promotes partners
Latest from BT in a week in which Optiva, RingCentral, Equinix, Cisco, and more are namechecked in expanded or extended deals; Openreach CEO gets on the EV campaign trail; BT wins payout from dismissed class action appeal; more…
Suppliers & SCM
BT taps Cisco AI know-how for UK-wide office spruce-up
Cisco Spaces built into BT’s Better Workplace real estate redevelopment scheme as Group eyes dark compute and AI in the network opportunities…
Partnerships & Alliances
NCR Atleos: Operators need global partners matched to B2B digital ambition
Emerging as a stealth powerhouse within the telecom industry ecosystem, NCR Atleos discreetly offers unmatched global hub and field support underpinning operators’ rapid deployment, management and commercialisation of headline‑grabbing technologies, including AI infrastructure and security.
Analyst Briefing
Orangewatch Weekly: New venture unfolds on Spanish fibre market
Latest from Orange, including: MásOrange and Vodafone Spain finally sign binding contract to create “Europe’s largest FibreCo”; Spanish price hikes; Slovakia nears 5G SA launch; copper in France…
M&A
Vi and Airtel sell out of troubled Wi-Fi joint venture
Indian operator duo sell 100% of Firefly Networks, bringing in around INR 45m each. Move comes as latest split between Vodafone and Airtel following Indus Towers stake sale. Read more…
Network & Infra
BT gears up for Global Fabric services launch in 2025
First enterprise customers take BT’s Global Fabric for a spin and test the network as a service platform ahead of service launches in early 2025.