EMEA Telco Leaders – Page 285
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Suppliers & SCMVodafone’s Partner and Supplier People Moves, October 2019
Latest partner/supplier people movement highlights include: Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Red Hat.
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PremiumVodafone Group People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Durdana Achakzai, Ritesh Bhargava, Jon Buckthorpe, Louis DiCesari, Nitu Kaushal, Asif Meghani, Mark Rose, Ahu Tunc, Olatz Urroz.
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PremiumVodafone Europe People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Petr Matejicek, Daniel Böttcher, Michael Brands, Frank Hellemink, Christian Hindennach, Raquel Martínez Herranz, Michael Rabes, Roberto Cipolla, Sibaji Biswasb, Marius Corcoman, Tiberius Popa, Paulo Neves, Douglas Grierson, Andrew Stevens, Dave Ward.
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PremiumVodafone Rest of World Region People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Aneeqah Vahed, Tanja Vermeulen, Nuno Duarte, Marwan Amin, Zeinab Sono, Tushir Malik, Sahil Verma.
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PremiumVodafone takes IoT on road with Geotab and Trinsic
Vodafone Automotive and Geotab club together to create Vodafone Business Fleet Analytics. New telematics and analytics platform initially available in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and UK. Vodafone extends partnership with Trinsic to woo automakers with branded connected-car solutions spread across multiple markets.
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PremiumRead signals further cost-cutting measures for Vodafone
Nick Read, Chief Executive (CEO) of Vodafone Group, signalled that further cost-cutting measures are ahead as Vodafone’s leadership pursues opportunities to improve its balance sheet, and appear on top of latest trends.
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Strategy & ChangeVodafone’s analytics team starts looking outward
Vodafone ready for long-trailered Location Intelligence services expansion. Five-year IT and organisational update ensures so-called ‘single version of truth’. IoT and security use-cases also in focus.
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Network & InfrastructureMavenir’s Cantarelli on OpenRAN vision
Vision of new flexibility and optionality in operator RAN deployments; not just a cost-slicer. 5G piece to be added to OpenRAN by end of 2019; vendors position for network densification role. Operators still to adapt themselves culturally and organisationally to exploit OpenRAN changes.
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PremiumVodafone throws down OpenRAN gauntlet
OpenRAN time appears to be coming, with supplier choice constraints evidently dominating Group thinking. Vodafone steps up rhetoric regarding potential of tech; “fast tracking” referenced. Group still in trial mode with technology, however. Firm strategy for bearers and configurations yet to emerge.
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PremiumVodafone Alumni People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Sean Mahon, Robin Bell.
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Public AffairsTop trio gain clear run on 5G spectrum
Leadership’s lobbying efforts look to have paid off, as new entrant plan fails to re-emerge and Digi is locked out.
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Products & ServicesTelekom Deutschland extends MVNO agreement with Lebara Deutschland
Telekom Deutschland (TDE) flagged the three-year extension of a long-standing agreement with ‘ethnic’ mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Lebara Deutschland.
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Products & ServicesTelekom Deutschland launches new IoT tariffs for SMEs
Telekom Deutschland launches new IoT tariffs for SMEs Source: Ambrose Chua / Unsplash Telekom Deutschland (TDE) trumpeted the launch of new Internet of Things (IoT) tariffs for small- and medium-size enterprises (SME). Called Business Smart Connect, the plans offer pre-activated SIM cards and a service portal developed ...
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PremiumTelekom Deutschland collabs with Huber+Suhner on small-cell antennae development
Telekom Deutschland (TDE) collaborated with Switzerland-based Huber+Suhner on the development of five small-cell antennae under the Sencity Urban brand.
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Products & ServicesTelekom Deutschland keeps home fires burning at IFA
Commercial smart speaker available. Expansion of smart homes services. Magenta VR on display. Wi-Fi optimisation at home.
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PremiumTelekom Deutschland to provide 5G connectivity to FC Bayern’s Allianz Arena
Telekom Deutschland (TDE) is to provide 5G connectivity for German soccer club FC Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena in Munich from spring 2020.
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PremiumTelekom Deutschland goes on road with Layjet Micro-Rohr
Trial of “revolutionary” cable-laying process in road shoulders.
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PremiumDeutsche Telekom hub:raum-backed smart-home startup Ecoisme ceases trading
Ecoisme, a smart-home startup backed by Deutsche Telekom’s hub:raum innovation unit, flagged that it had “ceased trading due to becoming insolvent”.
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PremiumDeutsche Telekom joins intellectual property patent marketplace Avanci
Deutsche Telekom (DT) joined Avanci, a patent marketplace focused on mobile network intellectual property (IP).
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PremiumDeutsche Telekom welcomes Edgecore Networks commitment to the Open Networking Foundation
Deutsche Telekom (DT) welcomed greater commitment from Edgecore Networks to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), an operator-led network software consortium that counts DT as a “full” partner member (Deutsche Telekomwatch, #66).