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Technology & ITOrange tests D2D appetite as Europe eyes satellite sovereignty
Orange is using its first commercial direct-to-device offering to test customer appetite rather than chase mass adoption, while trials with AST SpaceMobile and the battle over European MSS spectrum point towards a broader satellite strategy built around multiple technologies and partners.
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InterviewEY-Parthenon: in face of disruption, telcos must think differently about differentiation
Analysis: Can telecom operators transcend infrastructure before non-traditional challengers capture the enterprise frontier? Drawing on global C-suite research, this analysis explores why differentiation, agentic architectures and national sovereignty represent the industry’s most viable growth engines, and why defensive cost-cutting will not secure long-term relevance.
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Venturing & InvestmentsVivo targets Brazilian SMEs with Squad.com agentic AI tie-up
Brazilian operator again deploys corporate VC vehicle as vanguard on B2B partner development, preparing a commercial tie-up with Squad.com off the back of investment in business.
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InfraUK debate over how to power AI infra escalates
Microsoft’s withdrawal from Nscale’s Essex project has reignited questions about whether the UK can deliver AI infrastructure on commercial timelines.
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Technology & ITEvent-driven evolution: Boost Mobile and Wavelo pioneer the composable telco
Case study: When Boost migrated nearly eight million subscriber accounts to an event-driven architecture, the operational priority was absolute invisibility. The stealthy overhaul unexpectedly also delivered telecom’s current top prize: an auditable, composable foundation capable of executing agentic AI without risking the core ledger…
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Finance & StrategyUK’s Tesco Mobile hits six million customer mark
UK’s largest MVNO continues to expand its customer base and revenue, in reflection of the competitive challenges value-focused mobile providers are posing to UK mobile network operators in the current constrained market.
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Technology & ITFrom reactive to proactive: Ericsson and AWS bring agentic intelligence to OSS/BSS
Playbook: Legacy billing environments increasingly imperil CSP agility, yet ungrounded autonomy poses intolerable operational risks. Through an expanding collaboration with AWS, Ericsson is embedding governed, multi-agent artificial intelligence into production systems. Read how CSPs are already executing migrations and accelerating go-to-market…
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Special ReportNetwork APIs find their market, but where’s the money?
Special Report #1/4: in the first part of a four-part series on network APIs, we look at the scale (or otherwise) of operator revenue from the interfaces and the main use-cases driving it: namely fraud prevention and identity authentication.
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Special ReportExposing network APIs was the first step — building the business model is harder
Special Report #2/4: telcos still have a lot of work to do to develop API-based offerings that resonate with the requirements of users, observers say.
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Special ReportAduna’s Peter Arbitter explains API JV is ‘not in it for the money’
Special Report #3/4: Aduna was created to give developers an easier way to access telcos’ network APIs globally. But the Ericsson-backed joint venture is discovering that aggregation is only part of its job as it wrestles with performance, getting operators to expose enough useful APIs, and turning the interest using them into telco revenues.
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Special ReportThe ‘B2AI’ question: are telcos ready to sell trust to machines?
Special Report #4/4: Longer term, telcos believe AI agents could become a major new source of demand for network APIs, extending their business beyond user authentication and fraud prevention.
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Technology & ITROVA unboxed: telco-native endpoint platform emerges from stealth mode
After quietly powering management and cross-selling for millions of enterprise and consumer devices for a US telecom titan, ROVA Software is stepping out of the shadows to bring its telco-native platform to the rest of the world with the launch of ROVA Europe and a mission to reinvent how other operators maximise endpoint experience and value-add.
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NetworkNscale’s IPO comes at a precarious time for AI infra companies
UK-domiciled Nscale is reported to be targeting a $30bn valuation after filing for an New York Stock Exchange IPO. But the scale-up’s plans comes as investors reassess appetite for AI infrastructure and concerns around AI safety and sovereignty abound.
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InterviewiQmetrix to telco: ‘Your next customer may not be human’
Interview: Jason Raymer explains why a better strategy is needed for omnichannel retail, and why an architectural “system of intelligence” is required to bridge digital and physical operations for operators to differentiate on service.