Vodafone Strategy & Change
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Vendor VoiceSalesforce Industries: bringing cloud Vlocity to telco CX
As the CRM giant sharpens its focus on telco transformation, Salesforce Industries highlights the need for operators to lose legacy baggage, embrace cultural change, and focus on collaboration to move at digital pace. Experience of acquisition Vlocity demonstrates three trends in telco transformation, from gradual evolution to enthusiastic ...
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Strategy & Change
Safaricom still keen on Ethiopia entry bid
Safaricom looks set to be blocked from operating fintech service in the country, appearing to make case for entry shakier. Operator reaffirms Ethiopian commitment and indicates bid will be submitted. Interested parties await ECA’s spectrum auction update.
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Strategy & Change
IoT.nxt rejigs management to further exploit Vodafone links
Vodacom acquisition anticipates faster international growth, prompting operational changes along territorial lines. Among the trio of internal appointments is Mark Beets, handed responsibility for developing business with Vodafone’s Partner Markets organisation.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Group: SpaceMobile-NASA collaboration
NASA working with US satellite venture; Innovus bolsters security; Vodafone’s Harmonic partnership shows its size.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone's Associates and JVs: TPG 5G plans take shape
VodafoneZiggo flags Gigabit cable upgrades; 5G spectrum auction nearing in Australia.
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Strategy & Change
Vodafone Ireland pushes for greater digital engagement
OpCo has deployed the first 50 Broadband Connection Points as the long‑gestated National Broadband Plan starts to take shape. Reveals measures that were required to deal with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Europe: Greece targets submarine business
Vodafone Greece eyes submarine; cashiers going virtual in Spain; Vodafone UK blocked from handset blocking.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Africa: Vodacom in SA and Tanzanian trouble
Vodacom reportedly tangled in murder scandal in South Africa, and taking political fire over Tanzanian election.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone Group: mimik joins TMUS-backed 5G innovation lab
Vodafone continues to push cellular case in automotive innovation. Ex-Tech figures Arjomandi and Alamouti team up with T‑Mobile.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Africa: Vodacom ties with Cloudflare and Appsflyer
AppsFlyer and Cloudflare gain foothold within Vodacom ecosystem.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Europe: 5G projects gain momentum across Vodafone OBs
VfUK closes in on Gigafast rollout target; 5G projects gain momentum across OBs.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Vodafone's Associates & JVs: Vi confirms Indus Tower merger is back on
Dutch cable switchover resumes; Subex gains a role in Vi’s IT consolidation.
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Strategy & Change
Vodafone Albania denies exit rumours
Albanian OpCo pushes back against speculation that it will withdraw, claiming it remains a key market.
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Strategy & Change
Vodafone: Elsewhere in Group
Arch Summit cancelled; Axiata continues to give Vodafone the cold shoulder; campus network deployments start to trickle through.
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Strategy & Change
Vodafone puts over €1bn of projects in green basket
Group’s interest in chasing Green Bonds shows opportunities for suppliers and partners that can link their products and services to energy and emissions goals. Vodafone’s healthy pipeline of projects boosted by inclusion of older network upgrades, including single RAN deployment. Ongoing efficiency focus likely to ensure ...
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Strategy & Change
Italy’s INWIT: we’re Mercedes of tower race
CEO sees refresh of INWIT’s internal operations, instigated following meld of Vodafone Italy towers, as basis for industry leadership and stepping stone to expansion into new markets.
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone’s AI-based NOC overhaul steps up a gear
Migration of first line support tasks to Celfocus-supported CIAS system set to extend to ‘big four’ territories of Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK. Target is 50% of functions to be zero-touch by end of 2020. Project said to reflect shift to new collaborative models within Vodafone ...
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Strategy & Change
O2’s Haas lukewarm over Germany’s rural wirelessco
Operator predictably wary over the potential of planned mobile infrastructure company to disrupt MNOs, despite rural-focused mandate.
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Strategy & Change
Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone clap €130bn German stimulus
Massive €50bn pot set aside for ‘future’ technologies, including 6G, open RAN, AI, and quantum computing. New, €5bn mobile infrastructure company appears to take heat off mobile operators. Thinly veiled threat issued to network suppliers over ‘openness’ and interoperability.
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Strategy & Change
BT and Vodafone down arms, talk post-crisis teamwork
Home‑working seen as creating permanent new need for stronger networks covering UK homes, and potential for collaboration to deliver it. Industry cooperation seen as having played a key role in the robust management of changing demands on national infrastructure sparked by lockdown. Huawei takes a surprising dig ...
