Telecoms Partnerships & Alliances
All the latest insight, news and analysis on telecoms partnerships and alliances including BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone.
Suppliers & SCM
EE, IBM assemble ecosystem to rescue UK’s emergency services network
BAPCO Annual Event: Emergency Services Network contract holders EE and IBM build out programme supply chain, with calibre of partners adding confidence in the Home Office that ESN will deliver.
Network & Infrastructure
DT to debut direct-to-device service this year
Group plans release of D2D offering in Europe after expanding satellite comms relationship with US provider Skylo Technologies.
Partnerships & Alliances
Orange, Eutelsat widen satellite services partnership
European pair to combine for Middle East and African satellite services, filling rural gaps and bolstering terrestrial infra.
Partnerships & Alliances
UK mobile operators reach accord on telco API launch
MWC 2025: Deal finally reached between Virgin Media O2, BT, Vodafone UK, and Three UK to debut telco APIs, following in wake of other European economies. Read more…
Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica firms up ties with tech giant trio as it ramps Open Gateway ecosystem
MWC 2025: Telefónica’s Chema Alonso notes several new industry tie-ups on telco APIs, included expanded go-to-market relationships with Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services. Group now said to have more than 50 partnerships in place as it works to get APIs in the hands of developers. Read more…
Network & Infrastructure
Belgian fibre: Orange and Proximus confirm tie-up talks
Telco pair acknowledge ongoing discussions over a mutual fibre buildout arrangement covering less urban areas of Belgium’s Walloon Region.
Network & Infrastructure
Vodafone, SpaceMobile to create European SatCo JV
Pair unveil plans to launch co-owned satellite services joint venture, with Vodafone locked in as SpaceMobile’s European partner of choice.
Network & Infrastructure
O2 Germany gives voice to network cloud with Mavenir IMS
Latest chapter in now strategically-prioritised migration of network into the cloud sees modernisation of existing virtualised IMS solution for all of brownfield pathfinder’s voice services. Director of Networks’ Matthias Sauder envisions “new routes to value” for operator and customers…
Partnerships & Alliances
DT backs industry effort to help LLMs understand telco jargon
The GSMA is launching a new benchmarking initiative to test how AI models deal with telco use cases.
Weekly Briefings
BTwatch Weekly: vendor deals aplenty as BT promotes partners
Latest from BT in a week in which Optiva, RingCentral, Equinix, Cisco, and more are namechecked in expanded or extended deals; Openreach CEO gets on the EV campaign trail; BT wins payout from dismissed class action appeal; more…
Network & Infrastructure
Germany: Altice seeks exit from Vodafone fibre JV as build-out slows — report
Beleaguered French investor said to be in talks with potential buyers to offload its half share in OXG Glasfaser, as €7bn venture’s build-out progresses slower than expected in stressed German fibre sector…
Network & Infrastructure
MásOrange signs long-term deal with Cellnex in Spain
The much-trailered contract will run until 2048 with a renewal option in 2038, as Cellnex earns signature in competitive market.
Network & Infrastructure
BT weaves Equinix into expanding Global Fabric platform
Network-as-a-service platform deployed at 30 Equinix data centres, with another ten in the offing.