Analyst Briefing: Past week’s developments include more M&A machinations around DT’s infra partner ecosystem, as reports suggest SoftBank and DigitalBridge could come together on a deal that would bring the Japanese conglomerate into DT’s home-market tower space. Telekom Deutschland, meanwhile, makes a rare foray into fibre M&A with a ‘buy over build’ deal in Essen.
Analyst Briefing: In past week’s developments, a forced rethink on 2019 5G rights auction adds to the complicated regulatory and macro picture backdropping Germany’s telecoms sector; DT looks to Rheinmetall as a future partner on sovereign/security tech push; Congstar fills its CEO vacancy with internal promotion; and more…
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Key stories include: Iridium’s high hopes on DT link-up | DT’s razzamatazz on NVIDIA GPU play | Open RAN push widens to EU NatCos | B2B-focused One Portal nears launch | Gopalan targets more rival churn | and much more…
Key stories include: Romania mobile exit lifts P&L drag | Europe boss wants ideology shift | Nscale joins DT’s infra stable | AI & Data chief talks on ambitions | Poland tech boss switches to Germany | and much more…
Key stories include: Board mulls move to raise AI bar | Group parks Porsche in defence | Google Cloud ties grow bigger | T-Sys team has tech-led refresh | Gopalan’s US promotion confirmed | and much more…
DT’s corporate venturing arm T.Capital continues to expand its AI investment portfolio, highlighting it has added AI image generation tech specialist Black Forest Labs to its stable. Move comes as part of ongoing, aggressive ramp-up of AI deployments within the operator’s internal operations, driven by CEO Tim Höttges…
Hungarian telco duo take home a large chunk of funding made available in the first stage of the government’s Gigabit Hungary rural fibre rollout scheme, which forms part of the government’s strategy to reach 95% household coverage with fibre by 2030…
Deep dive: German incumbent devises twin-track plan to arrest slide in broadband user numbers and address weakness on monetising multi-billion-euro fibre buildout programme. Tactical shift includes accelerated incursion into rival’s urban cable network MDU heartland…
The latest strategic and senior changes at Deutsche Telekom see systems consolidation-focused operator looking to build up its central, Europe technology function with the extraction of multiple senior execs from Hrvatski Telekom and Magyar Telekom. Elsewhere, DT appoints a new Chief Networks Officer and former senior technology figures Claudia Nemat and Kim Kyllesbech Larsen take on new jobs.
Hrvatski Telekom changes tech leadership, as CTIO Boris Drilo heads out to take on a central B2B transformation role within parent Deutsche Telekom.
Knud Felde’s promotion follows predecessor’s departure to rival Vantage Towers. Appointment is latest organisational shake-up in the German tower segment…
