EMEA Telco Leaders – Page 288
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Vodafone Alumni People Moves, September 2019
Latest people movements include: Ian Ferrao, Douglas Craigie Stevenson, Jonathan Kini.
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Vodafone Rest of World Region People Moves, September 2019
Oddly-timed switch at the helm of Vodafone Idea. Latest people movements include: Riaan Naude, Anthony Theunissen, Shwetha Iyer, Rajat Mukarji, Mohit Narula, Balesh Sharma, Ravinder Takkar, Aish Sinha.
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Vodafone Europe Region People Moves, September 2019
People movements include: Julia Zaft, Peter Soos, Claudio Raimondi, Luca Somaschini, Albert Buxadé.
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Products & Services
Reverse Call feature introduced by Safaricom
Safaricom released a Reverse Call feature, enabling its customers to transfer the cost of a call to the receiver.
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Public Affairs
Kenya’s High Court dismisses SportPesa’s case
SportPesa attempted to challenge the country’s BCLB decision to cancel its operational licence.
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Vodafone Group People Moves, September 2019
Morawski swaps Vodafone Business for Oracle. Device-buying boss heads to Rogers. Latest people movements include: Alessandra Antonelli, María Babé Ayuso, Dorothee D’Herde, Fraser King, Andrew Morawski, David Rose, Roy van de Kamp, Sébastien Barberis, Pablo Inga.
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Safaricom tagged in Airtel-Telkom politics
Rival drags Safaricom into arguments as merger hits problems.
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Strategy & Change
Vodacom Group attempting to combat vandalism problem
Each year, as many as 500 of Vodacom’s South African sites are damaged.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Vodacom Group partners with Toyota on connected-car
Vodacom Group formed a connected-car partnership with Toyota South Africa Motors, the local subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, as part of its ongoing Internet of Things (IoT) drive.
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Strategy & Change
Vodacom lifts Tanzanian interest back to magic 75%
Vodacom looks close to regaining full control of Tanzanian OpCo. Move could have strategy and M&A implications.
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Public Affairs
Vodacom repeats plea for end to spectrum dilly-dallying
SA spectrum stoppage continues to disrupt Vodacom planning. Government digs heels in for mid-2020 decision; dreaded WOAN still alive. VdSA response includes 2G voice network closure.
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Vodafone Idea partners feel squeeze from merger meld
Signs of tech vendor challenges and frustration in converting sales. Broader operator downturn exacerbating difficulties.
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Vodafone Idea has officially relinquished customer base-leadership in Kolkata
Updated figures from India’s telecoms watchdog showed Vodafone Idea (VfI) has indeed relinquished customer base-leadership in Kolkata, one of the country’s three main licencing ‘circles’‘ (Vodafonewatch, #177).
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone Group deciding between last two players for media partnership
Vodafone was said to have reduced the shortlist in a tender for its global media account to just two players (Vodafonewatch, #165, #167, and #174).
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EE hits out at Vodafone UK’s “unlimited” data plans
Vodafone UK (VfUK) got an aggressive response from BT Group-owned EE to its “unlimited” 5G plans, launched in July 2019 (Vodafonewatch, #177).
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National Express gets on board with Vodafone Group and IBM cloud venture
Strategic partnership looks to be getting going.
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Vodafone Group apparently unaffected by long-running cyberattack
Vodafone was named among telecoms operators that appeared to have been unaffected by a long-running cyberattack flagged by US-Israeli cybersecurity specialist Cybereason.
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Public Affairs
Vodafone UK hits out over Ofcom enterprise market plans
More business-to-business tension between VfUK and BT.
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BT Group’s change of culture and strive for simplification
One theme of BT Technology’s 2019 Business Briefing event was the importance of cultural changes within BT’s IT department. The need to foster an environment more widely across the division and Group that will enable a digital transformation, driven by simplification and automation, was seen as an essential goal. ...
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BT Group hangs up on Fon?
BT Group’s shared Wi-Fi access partner Fon Wireless looks to have been subject to a management buyout. BT is believed to have held a stake in the wireless technology developer, but appears to have now cut ties.