All United Kingdom (UK) articles – Page 7
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Network & InfraWe built the networks. Now we must teach them to think.
The operating model that built today’s telecom networks is no longer sufficient: complexity has outpaced human execution. Celfocus’s Executive Chairman Luis Salvado believes that the industry must shift from application-driven to intelligence-defined systems — or risk being outpaced by hyperscalers already treating networks as orchestrated software.
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Financial & PerformanceFamiliar bumps on Vodafone’s road to recovery
FY25–26 In-depth: Group’s headline numbers look healthy with most metrics moving in the right direction, but underlying challenge remains in Germany and promise of hope from Africa yet to fully materialise. UK benefits from merger bulk-up but scale is no guarantee of market share…
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Financial & Performance‘Invest or die’ at Vodacom, Vodafone keeps things flexible
FY25–26 Spend: Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub sees no need for nuance in justifying capex plans; Vodafone’s Margherita Della Valle is more measured as capital intensity programme builds in flexibility and future investment even as network outlay tapers in key markets.
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Financial & PerformanceGuidance: more to emerge in Vodafone’s new growth story
Vodafone hits upper end of guidance and hopes to carry momentum into the next FY. Mid-term targets are far looser, with ‘new chapter’ strategy focused on approach rather than deliverables.
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Strategy & ChangeDigi plots UK MVNO to drive ‘nationwide’ convergence ambitions
European telecoms disruptor flags UK MVNO plans as it prepares convergence play to build on “step-by-step” UK expansion…
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Partnerships & AlliancesBT 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…
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Network & InfraVM O2 says AI and digital twin are solving fixed network faults faster
UK operator is reducing its fixed network back‑office workload and speeding fault resolution through automated decisioning, having revamped its data architecture to support quicker insight and action…
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PeoplewatchAllPoints CEO to take top spot at Irish digital infra association
Kelly appointed as CEO at Digital Infrastructure Ireland as he moves to leave UK altnet. The association seeks to tap into the exec’s digital infra expertise to guide strategic shift, as it aims to attract investment and influence policy across a wider portion of the nation’s digital infra sector…
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M&AUK’s AllPoints reinforces wholesale shift with Cuckoo divestment
Altnet furthers transition from fibre builder to wholesale aggregator by offloading one of its two consumer ISPs. Deal sees AllPoints sign up another customer to growing aquila platform, as it moves to commercialise its fibre infrastructure…
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Strategy & ChangeArch-disruptor Digi teases UK landfall — is £15 fibre here to stay?
In depth: expansive Romanian telco disruptor teases ultra-low pricing that has shaken up EU markets and now threatens to redraw UK fibre market’s economics and put further pressure on already fragile altnet ARPU… next stop mobile?
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Financial & PerformanceLeading by example: Vodafone CEO frames UK integration as blueprint for future market evolution
FY25–26: Margherita Della Valle pitches the instant impact of the VodafoneThree merger as a driver for UK growth, improved financial performance, and a route to win in a tough competitive environment — but a muted end to FY25–26 tempers optimism, as pre-merger headaches persist.
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Analyst BriefingUK Infrawatch: Chelot’s ‘Plan B’; Boldyn’s new underground deal; all change at AllPoints
Analyst Briefing: Latest from the digital infra scene in the UK, as Netomnia’s Chelot talks nexfibre merger plans, wireless infra players thrive, APFN under new management, and plenty more…
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Network & InfraBT to launch ‘nationwide’ network slicing for consumer and enterprise
BT will offer network slices later this year as it positions 5G SA as a monetisation engine, building on early use-case validation.
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Consumer (B2C)BT shifts ‘from build to brand’ as it leans back into heritage
CEO Allison Kirkby has ‘relaunched’ the consumer BT marque three years after it was sidelined, with a return to mobile and a renewed focus on the operator’s ‘most loyal’ customer base.
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Analyst BriefingVodafonewatch: back to M&A as early UK signals inspire confidence
Analyst Briefing: Full takeover of VodafoneThree imminent after management heralds ‘remarkable’ integration progress; INWIT thought to be weighing an acquisition of its own in diversification bid; India’s Vi earns government dues reprieve; One NZ re-ups Vodafone ties; Group readies to publish FY earnings…
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M&AVodafone bulks up with £4.3bn UK buyout
Group says ‘time is right’ to move on VodafoneThree less than a year after combining, buying out CK Hutchison and bulking up in its home market. Management cites progress on synergies, but jury’s out on ‘success’ of merged operator eleven months in…
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Analyst BriefingBTwatch: the return of budget mobile?
Analyst Briefing: reports emerge that BT is preparing a consumer reversal, re-entering the no-frills mobile space and re-energising the BT brand. Elsewhere, Business CTO Colin Bannon makes a rare plea for more regulation; and Ofcom opens a compliance investigation…
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Strategy & ChangeBT: UK’s regulatory ‘Wild West’ presents barrier to sovereignty investment
FutureNet World: Business CTO Colin Bannon makes rare call for greater regulation to remove sovereign platform investment barriers and warns that end-to-end technical sovereignty is unrealistic and misguided.
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InnovationTelefónica tests out real-time call translation
Group is exploring a move into network-based translation and transcription as part of new-wave innovation programme centring on 5G SA and AI.
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PeoplewatchOpenreach veteran takes CEO spot at Lightning Fibre
Openreach’s Bertrand Mazieres moves to fibre challenge to lead “next phase” of strategy to commercialise its network…