All Products & Services articles – Page 19
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Partnerships & AlliancesAldi enters smart home space with DT tie-up
Entry-level SmartHome Magenta package to be made available on online shelves. Tie-up with Germany’s discount supermarket chain will no doubt be watched closely by smart-home rivals.
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PremiumTMUS gets into fibre game with New York trial
Operator enters leasing arrangement in most populous US city. TMUS testing waters with T-Mobile Fiber, as telco slowly and steadily ramps up in-home internet service drive.
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Products & ServicesDT to cut its losses on De-Mail, says partner
Encrypted mail service De-Mail, described by Timotheus Höttges as a “dead horse” earlier this year, dropped by Telekom Deutschland according to partner Web.de. NatCo will cease its offering by end of August 2022, a decade after launch, citing a “lack of profitability”.
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PremiumElsewhere in BT Enterprise: BT tests IoT platform
BT puts IoT platform through its paces; MVNOs show opportunism on EE’s 5G network; Airwave operator under heat from UK regulator.
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Products & ServicesO2 continues piggyback policy with Tele Columbus deal
Fixed-line services expanded to reach a further 2.4 million homes under Tele Columbus tie-up. Deal adds to Vodafone agreement under which the O2 My Home portfolio is also offered.
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Products & ServicesO2 targets SMEs with SD-WAN platform
Business division begins marketing new cloud-based network automation system. German OB lends helping hand to SMEs in digitalisation mode. No technology partners credited.
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Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Telefónica Infra-Tech: Mistral goes live
Mistral goes live; Telefónica Tech gets sporty.
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Strategy & ChangeElsewhere in Telefónica Core Markets: German 5G rollout update
German OB advances 5G rollout; customer rewards scheme launched in Spain after successful trial; VM O2 reinforcing green credentials.
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Suppliers & SCMBT protégé DoubleMe doubles down on 5G and MEC
3D image processing specialist highlights collaboration with BT, DT, Telefónica, Vodafone, and others to realise real-time ‘metaverse’ ambitions using 5G.
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Products & ServicesIoT.nxt takes sports performance platform on tour
Rugby team the first to leverage IoT.nxt’s PLAYER.Connect real-time sports performance platform. Vodacom-owned IoT specialist targets fresh industry segment, drawing on breadth of Vodafone partnerships.
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Products & ServicesMovistar+ sets stage for aggregator play in Spain
New CEO Cristina Burzako restructures and refocuses strategy. Focus tightening on partnerships and customer experience, but original content and exclusive sport remain important differentiators. Amidst Movistar+ revamp, Telefónica faces big decisions and bigger bills for content rights.
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Products & ServicesMobiledgeX updates platform, switches on revenue taps
Deutsche Telekom edge compute spinout unveils MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud 3.0. Latest platform iteration aimed at enabling greater collaboration between telcos and hyperscalers. DT–Mavenir tie-up demos cloud-native 5G user plane function to support MEC applications. CEO Hoffman says MobiledgeX making money; aims to increase number of operator “installations” from 18 to ...
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Products & ServicesMagenta Telekom stops offering CarConnect to new users
Austria becomes second market where offering is quietly retired. Unclear whether or not equivalent services in Czech Republic, Poland, and the USA face a similar fate.
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Products & ServicesDT, 1NCE, and AWS team up for simpler IoT
A bundle of connectivity, IoT platform, and cloud services for enterprises. Trio aims for IoT that’s “simple as a click”.
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Products & ServicesPartners tapped for Vodafone IoT device update
Cradlepoint, Digi International, and Teltonika Networks named device provider partners for latest Integrated Terminals iteration. Vodafone-branded and -managed LTE-powered IoT suite given new lease of life.
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Products & ServicesSafaricom, Vodacom launch m-money Super Apps
Safaricom’s m-payment and remittance service leaps into the digital services realm with an experience-focused facelift. “Super App”- tag attached to revamped M-PESA, with new functionality showing resemblances with Vodacom–Alipay’s ‘app-within-an-app’ concept. Vodacom’s Super App now onboarding partners.
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PremiumVodafone’s energy analytics platform rollout progresses
60,000-plus sites across operations in twelve markets now benefiting from eSight-enabled energy management tech. Operator’s emissions clean-up intensifies.
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Products & ServicesDT makes next-gen home improvements
Homegrown and open-source tech underpin consumer services strategy. New Home OS and Router OS in the spotlight. DT goes big on cloudification, voic-ification, and orchestration.
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PremiumEE backtracks on post-Brexit roaming charges
EE became the first UK MNO to announce plans to reinstate roaming charges for customers travelling to the EU. O2 UK and Three UK follow suit to an extent, tweaking fair usage policies.
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Products & ServicesVodafone Carrier Services expands enterprise fraud prevention
Vodafone Carrier Services set to roll out Vodafone Identity Hub to five more European markets. Built on industry initiative Mobile Connect, platform uses network data for authentication and identity verification services for businesses.