Vodafonewatch: tower turbulence and AI acceleration
Joe Purnell2026-07-21T15:55:00
Analyst Briefing: the European towers industry watches on as Vodafone-backed INWIT battles MNO discontent in Italy; Vodafone reaps the rewards of early security and compliance grunt work as it accelerates AI adoption; satco SpaceMobile continues with familiar ups and downs; and more from Africa, Europe, elsewhere…
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- Themes: Artificial intelligence (AI); AI governance; Cloud-native transformation; Conflict minerals; Direct-to-device (D2D); Enterprise cybersecurity; Infrastructure sharing; Low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites; Network automation; Satellite-terrestrial convergence.
- People: Alex Kopp; Andy Linham; Ayman Essam; Jayesh Hargovan; Luke Bradley; Margherita Della Valle.
- Geographic: Democratic Republic of Congo; Germany; South Africa; United Kingdom (UK).
- Organisations: Amazon Leo; AST SpaceMobile; Fortinet; Global Witness; Google Cloud; Microsoft; SpaceMobile; TelecomTV; University of the Witwatersrand (Wits); Vodafone; Vodafone Business; Vodafone Germany; VodafoneThree; VOIS; Vodacom.