Strategy & Change
BT steps up SME defence as it awaits insolvency tsunami
BT Enterprise’s Q1 FY20–21 performance shows a business briefly hollowed out, and anticipating further blows as it begins its recovery. Small Business Support Scheme is promoting ultrafast vouchers, bursaries and training in the hope of softening the impact of the pandemic recession.
Scotland back in the game on rural 4G
Interview: Julie Snell of the Scotland 5G Centre
Amdocs snaps up emerging rival Openet
BT guards Microsoft Azure Sentinel
BT Group leads charge for UK EVs
BT Global finalises French offload to Computacenter
Lords pressures BT on Huawei human rights record
UK retreats in face of unrelenting US Huawei-NGN pressure
Strategy & Change
Telekom’s global B2B play mapped out
Through the Group’s latest B2B reorganisation, DT’s home market NatCo is expanding beyond Germany and into the Americas, Asia, and elsewhere.
Rapid uptake for DT COVID tracing app
Elsewhere in Germany: content reined in; Deutsche Glasfaser builds up
DTCP joins Auth0 investor pool
Elsewhere in TMUS: Uncarrier network failures and further bedding in
Elsewhere in Europe: DTGC backs OpenRoaming; TMCZ to face 5G foes
DTCP, Goldman Sachs in $80m LeanIX Series-D round
US forces UK hand on Huawei, Germany resists
Regulatory questions posed over DT’s Romanian exit plan
Suppliers & SCM
Telefónica digs in further with Havas
Estimated €500m global media account was first awarded to French group in 2014.
Telefónica digs in further with Havas
Pandemic stalls Telefónica’s alarm JV launch
O2 Germany to create joint tech division under CTIO Rao
Spain launches €40m programme to test 5G use-cases
Q2 FY20 first take: Telefónica distracts as reality bites
Telefónica uses Liberty for Costa Rica exit Plan B
Telefônica digs deep for 4G in Brazil’s mining sector
Vivo partners Huawei on 5G lab
Public Affairs
Vodafone on hold over Trump’s German troop pull-out
Impact of European military shake-up on Vodafone Germany’s specialist TKS unit yet to become clear.
Vodafone on hold over Trump’s German troop pull-out
Italy’s INWIT: we’re Mercedes of tower race
Vodafone to smarten up Paddington
Vodafone rethinking content partner strategy
Vodacom tags Alipay to launch digital services “super app”
Jio turns into Vodafone Idea’s worst digital nightmare
DT, Telefónica, Vodafone units tackle pan-Euro BroadWay prototypes
Vodacom Business Africa extends to Middle East
