All Digital transformation articles – Page 3
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Public Affairs
UK: Lords maul government on digital exclusion, call for greater altnet role
Locally-focused altnets are seen as a valuable tool in bridging the Digital Divide by peers tasked with assessing the costs and consequences of digital exclusion.
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Venturing & Investments
Telefónica invests in data startup Mitiga to keep eye on climate risk
Strategic investment arm provides fresh funding for Barcelona-based vendor of EarthScan intelligence platform, with aim to protect operator’s assets from weather events. Group expects involvement in climate risk sector to “grow significantly” in the coming years to reach sustainability goals…
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Network & Infrastructure
Virgin Media O2 says Tata to workplace app tangle
Tata Consultancy Services to refresh operator’s employee experience systems as part of ongoing programme of synergy extraction from former Virgin Media and O2 infrastructure.
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: strategic swaps in the boardroom, rigorous defence in the courtroom
Latest around BT and its ecosystem as the Group goes to court to defend against overcharging class action; Deutsche Telekom goes strategic with latest BT board rep; and BT lays out a spectrum policy wish list; and more…
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Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: Jansen tenure closes out with network wins, pricing changes
Latest around BT and its ecosystem, with new CEO Allison Kirkby in the wings and Starlink in constellation test-mode, plus: quantum radio ambitions; CWU scrutinising BT Fleet TUPE obligations; Better Workplace in final phase; and more…
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Premium
Elsewhere in Deutsche Telekom Group: Vodafone’s van Boxmeer has a word in Draghi’s ear
Vodafone’s van Boxmeer has a word in Draghi’s ear re. European regulatory hurdles.
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People
Ex-Telefónica chair César Alierta passes away
Operator reflects on former Chairman’s impact, having helped the operator to expand geographically and initiating its digital transformation strategy.
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M&A
Telefónica ‘closes out’ digital-R&D merger, creating strategic digitalisation unit led by CDO
Hacker-in-chief Alonso to lead newly-formed Telefónica Innovación Digital, encompassing data, digital services and innovation functions. Part of Group-wide simplification drive, supporting strategic digital transformation. Learn more…
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Strategy & Change
TelcoX study reflects Telefónica’s tech-led confidence
TelcoX EMEA CSP and ecosystem Leadership & Performance Report provides insight into how Telefónica is perceived by senior leadership and peers.
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Partnerships & Alliances
BT Digital adds Blue Planet to OSS overhaul, automation team
Delivering “dramatic simplification” amongst other benefits, BT’s latest embrace of Ciena’s Blue Planet network software platform is set to streamline Group-wide broadband provision. Read more…
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Vendor Voice
Prodapt: Domain specialist service providers can help telcos go beyond opex reduction
Telcos should zoom out of their opex focus and pursue the top‑line improvement potential inherent in their networks with enterprise customers, believes Prodapt.
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Network & Infrastructure
‘Show me the money’: vHive’s economic case for autonomous Tower Digital Twins
The TowerCo opportunity is no longer principally a real estate play, as traditional players work to extract more value from physical assets, and neutral infra players expand ambitions. vHive presents hard cash evidence supporting digitisation as key to unlocking a new level of economic worth.
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Suppliers & SCM
SAP trumpets role in transformation gains at BT
ERP player SAP declared success for solution deployments fulfilling commitments made in a strategic partnership signed in 2019.
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Strategy & Change
Blackstone targets ‘compelling’ digital infra gains
Investment behemoth wants to more than double the value of its infrastructure business, aided by AI-fuelled growth in data centre capacity and other digital assets.
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Strategy & Change
BT Business to slash product portfolio as CEO Burger lifts lid on strategy
B2B division to “do fewer things” in bid to drive efficiency, focus on customer outcomes, seek growth.
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Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone revamps monitoring capabilities with Celfocus as it eyes billion IoT devices mark
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and sub-second processing capabilities introduced into Vodafone’s monitoring of IoT core services connectivity for oversight of hundreds of millions of IoT connections. Upgrade driven by need to address client frustration over slow fault resolution, as well as internal desire for efficiency improvement. Scalability also key: ...
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Products & Services
In depth: BT’s Kevin Lee on Aimee becoming EE’s AI ‘superhero’
BT Consumer Chief Digital Officer Kevin Lee tells the story of Aimee’s journey from fledgeling with “limited skillset”, to becoming EE’s ‘superhero’. Exec highlights importance of Aimee as a co-pilot for EE customer support, with operator aiming to assist all agent conversations with chatbot beyond 2025.
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Eventwatch
Deutsche Telekom calls for industry support to solve challenges of driving AI at scale
During Fyuz, DT’s Jochen Appel said that “the question is not ‘where do we use AI’; the question is, ‘where do we not use it’?
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Strategy & Change
DT steps up ‘cloudification’ with Amazon to tame its IT jungle
Peter Leukert outlines the main challenges of pivotal Route 60 cloudification programme, particularly around securing management support and bedding in cultural and organisational change to accompany technology investments.
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Venturing & Investments
Tomorrow Street goes transatlantic for full SCALEUP X cohort
Vodafone–Technoport JV finalises list of 20 scaleups on 2023 iteration of acceleration programme.