All Vodafone Group articles – Page 84
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PremiumVodafone Rest of World Region People Moves, July 2019
Latest people movements inlcude: Michael Joseph, George Njuguna, Thibaud Rerolle, Jacqueline Kalaza, Abhay Parashar, Sainath Rajagopal.
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PremiumVodafone Group People Moves, July 2019
Latest people movements include: Paul Chapple, Jennifer Gill Didoni, Nick Dixon, Justine Harris, Cornelia Schaurecker, Ninian Wilson.
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PremiumVodafone Group Alumni People Moves, July 2019
Latest people movements include: Pauline Best, Catherine Walker, Andy MacLeod, Arun Sarin, B. S. Shantharaju, Maximo Ibarra, Karsten Pradel, Mark Bowden.
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PremiumSafaricom is the latest to introduce LTE services
Safaricom is the latest Vodafone business to launch voice-over-LTE and video-over-LTE services.
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Suppliers & SCMVodacom Group spreads supply to mitigate US-China fall-out
Political storm spreading beyond Vodafone’s European homeland.
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Public AffairsVodafone Group quietly exits Iran
Geopolitics strikes again; June 2019 filing reveals exit from enterprise and network tie-up.
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PremiumVodafone Business providing IoT connectivity for Perch Interactive’s products
Perch Interactive, a retail display specialist, highlighted that Vodafone Business is providing IoT connectivity for its products.
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PremiumVodafone Group gave its backing to Libra, Facebook’s planned new digital currency
Vodafone gave its backing to Libra, a new digital currency planned by Facebook. Apart from France-based Iliad Group, Vodafone is the only network operator among the initial 28 members of the Libra Association. Others in the Association include eBay, Lyft, Mastercard, PayPal, Spotify, and Uber. Each member must pay ...
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PremiumPTC flags a “strategic alliance” with Vodafone Business
US-based wireless technology specialist PTC flagged a “strategic alliance” with Vodafone Business
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Strategy & ChangeDTW19: Vodafone Germany on charge to cloud payments
Long-running, Huawei-supported project said to have been met well, with customer experience and efficiencies benefits. Some compromises made on legacy and vendor retention.
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Strategy & ChangeDTW19: Another Vodafone Group signal of coming partner platform refit
Vodafone recognises need for improvement in partner collaboration, to fuel 5G success. Chief Systems Architect looking to reshape IT, to help open-up while protecting “secret sauce”. TM Forum and University of Surrey among collaborators.
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Partnerships & AlliancesDeutsche Telekom: introvert telcos plan mould-breaking 5G party (DTW19)
DT plans to step up “conversations” with partners in a bid to ensure 5G return-on-investment. Execs concede telcos remain “quite poor” on enabling collaboration. ’Fast telecoms’-vision mooted, with repeatability across numerous services, but can traditionally closed telcos deliver? Hints of increased focus on services long-tail, and beyond flagship tie-ups. ...
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Network & InfrastructureOperators, other industries struggle for 5G commonality
5G expectations have been raised, and now need to be met: lots of talk of potential, but monetisation not clear cut. Scepticism over network readiness for advanced, challenging applications, such as in gaming and sport. Supplier establishment again chided for dragging feet on harmonisation and cloud-ification; operators stuck in ...
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Innovation (R&D)TM Forum champions APIs as telcos battle web giants
More big hitters are joining TMF’s Open API programme, although numbers remain lower than anticipated. Ongoing focus on standardisation and consistency saw a pause in API development to ensure strong foundations. Adoption of SDN and virtualisation is blurring the remit of traditional standards bodies.
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Innovation (R&D)TM Forum DTW19: 2019 Catalysts spark pragmatic innovation
Rundown of key Catalysts, joint initiatives. More than 30 joint technology projects demoed, with assurance, partnering, and customer experience to fore. Operator preoccupations ahead of 5G include profitability and effectiveness of network slicing. Drones, emergency services, and healthcare among focus verticals.
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EventwatchTM Forum’s DTW19 event underlines need for collaboration and speed
The telecoms industry’s annual pilgrimage to Nice on the French Riviera is set to take on a somewhat different tone in 2020. France has become inextricably linked with the flagship TM Forum (TMF) event – apart from two forgotten years in Dublin – but, following its rebranding as Digital Transformation World in 2018, the event now looks set to transfer to Copenhagen, apparently in order to provide more space.
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PremiumFacebook recruiting Euro telco SPAM
Facebook underlined its increasingly multi-faceted relationship with Deutsche Telekom (DT) by advertising for a Strategic Partner Account Manager, focused on fashioning ties with the Group and other European telcos
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Public AffairsHöttges wades into EU connected car dispute
Timotheus Höttges, Chief Executive of Deutsche Telekom (DT), waded into the dispute at European Union (EU) level over which technology should be selected to support connected-cars in Europe.
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Strategy & ChangeWibergh trailers next five-year plan for Group Tech
Johan Wibergh, Chief Technology Officer of Vodafone, used the Arch Summit to provide a teaser on the Group’s coming “Technology 2025” strategic update, and a glimpse into leadership’s latest thinking about how it can protect revenue and relevance as challenges continue to mount.