All Mobile World Congress (MWC) articles – Page 3
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica builds out Microsoft ties with AI, API deals
MWC: Group evolves relationship with tech giant through tie-ups over Kernel cognitive intelligence platform and GSMA’s Open Gateway initiative. Fresh initiatives line up neatly with three-year strategic targets. Read more…
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Products & Services
CTO Petty backs XR as Vodafone and Qualcomm target 5G enterprise
MWC: Vodafone’s CTO Scott Petty sees telemedicine and manufacturing as key areas where XR apps can help build new business cases that leverage 5G investment.
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Public Affairs
“Who the hell is giving these companies money?” — Höttges warns of investment crisis as big four unite
In a “historic” coming together of the heads of Europe’s four biggest operators, calls were made for changes in regulation, spectrum, and merger policy to support future investment. The EC appears open to change on all fronts, but not always as the operators wish.
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Products & Services
German telco trio debuts Open Gateway APIs
MWC: Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Vodafone launch first APIs in Germany, with focus initially on providing anti-fraud and security to financial organisations. Various ongoing trials flagged with Fireblocks, Siemens Energy, and Sony. Collaboration presented as key as initiative takes centre stage at Mobile World Congress…
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Consumer (B2C)
BT’s Marc Allera: putting relationships first as operators strive for ‘resonance and relevance’
MWC: BT Consumer CEO lays out focus on building a “relevant” EE brand that prioritises connectivity-adjacent services, before leveraging BT’s network strengths once relationships are built.
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Network & Infrastructure
Liberty flags AWS partnership, taking NaaS ‘to the next level’
Latest from Liberty as busy Group talks up AWS, VodafoneZiggo collaboration on APIs set to go live commercially later in the year; tees up more to come at next week’s MWC…
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: Transforming and initialising into annuals, MWC
Latest people moves focused on transformation; initialism-rich MWC preview includes API AI plus ORAN; 3-day weekend off the table in Hungary; TMUS getting serious on churn; EC could helpfully move into reset-mode on sector regulation, ahead of upcoming DT update…
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Innovation (R&D)
Vodafone gears up for MWC with Network in a Box 2.0
Vodafone teases an updated and now remotely manageable version of its eponymous Network in a Box solution ahead of Mobile World Congress, where it will be will showcased alongside fresh XR tech, network APIs, more…
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Eventwatch
TelcoTitans Eventwatch calendar: the industry events that matter
TelcoTitans Eventwatch highlights the key events to look out for in 2025 that really matter, and those we will be covering, attending, and associated with as an official media partner.
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Telefónica to launch holographic call service in 2024
New offering, created in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and Vodafone, expected to go live after MWC 2024.
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Bullitt fires first shot in sat-to-phone messaging battle
Service unveiled at MWC now live, enabled through tie-up with new space player Skylo Technologies.
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Network & Infrastructure
Orange relaunches RFPs to speed up network virtualisation
Group puts two‑to‑three year timeline on hybrid cloud future.
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DT ‘liberates’ voice AI, targets interoperability
New voice‑based services launched as part of shift to device‑agnostic proposition.
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More deals mooted as Telefónica Tech seeks growth
Tech’s IoT & Big Data chief indicates his unit may buy to bring in new growth opportunities, citing success of earlier acquisition Geprom.
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Telefónica enhances data analytics for 5G monitoring
Telefónica incorporates new network data analytics function to analyse and make predictions on network operations.
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BT calls for flexibility as operators up fair share pressure
Major operators united in demanding a more telco‑friendly regulatory framework for the European Union, while still trumpeting growing commercial alliances with US Big Tech.
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Ofcom consults industry on mmWave licence conditions
Regulator confirms release of 6.25MHz spectrum across 26GHz and 40GHz frequency bands for mobile use.
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Telefónica integrates data analytics for 5G network monitoring
Telefónica incorporates new network data analytics function to analyse and make predictions on network operations.
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Elsewhere in BT Technology: BT updates on CReDo digital twin developments
BT updates on CReDo digital twin developments.
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Telefónica and Qwilt team for “hybrid” open CDN drive
New alliance will open up Telefónica’s Movistar Plus+ CDN assets to Qwilt’s content provider partners and expand Telefónica’s distribution network to Qwilt sites.