Latest Partnership News – Page 70
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Partnerships & AlliancesDT signs up to IBM’s blockchain buyer group
Trust Your Supplier consortium, launched in 2019, aims to ensure sellers are who they say they are.
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PremiumBT executives: teamwork key for new normal
Closer partnerships with customers and more collaboration with key suppliers viewed as especially key in post-COVID-19 era. Hyperscalers looming large as a challenging market presence but also as potentially valuable partners. Response to current disruption is providing BT with food for thought on how it can move fast and ...
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PremiumBTwatch roundup — June 2020
Key news from the past month from across BT and Openreach: Updated NCSC guidance welcomed by BT; European telcos join COVID track-and-trace effort; Consumer faces coronavirus response kickback; Enterprise gets HMRC contract.
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Network & InfrastructureBT’s McRae on edge: “we want to do a lot more”
Chief Architect Neil McRae outlined key drivers for edge compute, and role of network operators in adoption. Edge forecast to be “everywhere”, with telco operators needing to reposition and collaborate in order to keep hyperscalers at bay. Private networks, eHealth, and remote monitoring flagged as key early use-cases.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodacom’s IoT.nxt digs for in-house growth
Startup claims fears over absorption into the Vodacom super-structure have so far been unrealised. Internet of Things player wins central place in Vodafone’s private network package for mining businesses.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafone rejigs FTTP relationship with Telefónica
Reworked deal said to give challenged Spanish OpCo a broader fibre platform and better terms, in return for expanded commitments.
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Network & InfrastructureDT tie-up looks beyond city limits
Smart-city and 5G-flavoured partnership with Münster utility eases rollout constraints being suffered by Deutsche Funkturm.
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PremiumDeutsche Telekomwatch roundup — June 2020
Deutsche Telekomwatch roundup — June 2020 Source: Deutsche Telekomwatch #94 Group Partnerships MobiledgeX, Deutsche Telekom’s edge computing platform spin-out, unveiled what it called a “demand-side” initiative, branded Seamster. The aim, said MobiledgeX, was to capture and model enterprise use-cases surrounding 5G and edge computing, and accelerate ...
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Partnerships & AlliancesCan new telco group bridge COVID tracing’s digital divide?
New rapid response specifications group, E4P, aiming to facilitate interoperability across European track-and-trace apps through a focus on privacy and security, with standards ready by end-summer 2020. Conflict between centralised and decentralised approach to developing tracing apps may prove a stumbling block, however.
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PremiumTMUS doubles down on 5G innovation
NatCo sets up 5G Open Innovation Lab with Intel, NASA. Sprint Accelerator programme relaunched.
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Partnerships & AlliancesDT backs launch of Europe’s GAIA-X cloud project
DT on team of 22 founding members as GAIA-X unveiled, albeit with technical snafu. Initiative talked up as “starting point of a European data ecosystem”.
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Partnerships & AlliancesTelefónica links Osasuna with football tech
Smart shin pad provider Humanox nets deal with Club Atlético Osasuna and Telefónica for Spanish grassroots rollout.
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Products & ServicesRadianz bulks up in blockchain with VALK partnership
Asset management services provider VALK adds its Corda-based blockchain product to BT’s Radianz Cloud.
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Network & InfrastructureDT expands private 5G partnerships
Deutsche Telekom’s campus network push gets another four partners in AR, automation, and hardware.
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Partnerships & AlliancesDroniq gets off to a flyer
Deutsche Telekom’s drone joint venture goes beyond line-of-sight.
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Innovation (R&D)O2 joins call for UK to step up self-driving tests
O2 UK, Cisco, and partners recommended a UK cyber test facility for connected and autonomous vehicles, complete with allocated spectrum and a core and fibre backbone.
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Products & ServicesTelefónica picks new banking buddy
Commerzbank’s comdirect to support refresh of O2 Germany’s O2 Banking service, after break-up of relationship with launch partner Fidor Bank.
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Innovation (R&D)Operators prep for 5G reality with Qualcomm
Qualcomm’s OEM certification programme expected to enable establishment of a new XR device category. European operators predict performance and sports content rights can be leveraged to create popular new applications that will showcase 5G’s worth.
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Partnerships & AlliancesInternet para Todos ties with everis for OSS
Consultancy flags development of flexible, open source platform to power the IpT vision of extended wireless access.
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PremiumVodafone Czechs into SD-WAN space with VMware
Czechia deployment is first move in a national-level SD-WAN plan. OpCo’s pitch is around smoothing communications during COVID-19 pandemic. Group seeking to disrupt incumbent fixed-line operators with software-based networking services.