All TelcoFutures articles – Page 6
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telekom Deutschland links up with Beyond Now on ‘Magenta B2B2X’ digital marketplace launch
Germany NatCo and Beyond Now expand partnership with collaboration on new platform play, targeting enterprises and their clients with voice, connectivity, 5G, data analytics, and IoT services.
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Network & Infrastructure
Future is distributed for BT as cloud strategy evolves
As options multiply for positioning the compute power needed to deliver cloud-based applications, commercial aspects may be as important as latency or resilience in locating services in a hybrid world.
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Products & Services
Vodafone Turkey gives TOBi a voice as automation drive continues
New feature intended to strengthen chatbot’s ease of use and minimise difference in customer experience between digital assistant and live representative.
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Digital ID platform approved for healthcare in Germany
German government‑backed telematics specialist Gematik approves DT’s digital identity scheme.
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Partnerships & Alliances
O2 Germany advances IoT connectivity with New Sat challenger Skylo
First hybrid cellular-satellite NB-IoT services to launch in early 2024.
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Public Affairs
EU urges action as 2030 digital infra targets are “far from assured”
European Commission calls on EU member states to pick up the pace on digital infra rollout, estimating up to €227bn required to meet 2030 goals.
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Eventwatch
Interview: Chema Alonso on building Telefónica’s API place
Telefónica’s Chief Digital Officer expects Open Gateway APIs to begin having revenue impact in current fiscal year, with first products being launched in Brazil.
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Partnerships & Alliances
Telefónica teams with Ericsson to develop cloud RAN
A new collaboration agreement will see pair roll out trial deployments of cloud radio access networks in Europe using open APIs.
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Partnerships & Alliances
New Sat challenger Sateliot expands 5G IoT coverage with Comfone deal
Spanish satellite player Sateliot partners with Comfone to offer global 5G NB-IoT roaming.
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Strategy & Change
BT looks to AI for ‘next billion’ value opportunity
DTW23 - Ignite: Harmeen Mehta takes BT’s transformation agenda beyond early targets with support from AI, eyes the “next billion” for the Group, and says operator’s radical transformation will define BT’s growth for the next decade.
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Network & Infrastructure
Telefónica herds Hispam manufacturers onto Telco Cloud
Telefónica Hispanoamérica goes live with Telco Cloud platform, aiming to improve efficiency and resource management.
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Strategy & Change
DT ‘cloudification’ delivers sustainability and business benefits
More than 60% of core IT applications migrated to the cloud.
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Movistar Plus+ revamp takes on streaming giants
Spanish operator hopes to stem pay‑TV losses with a refreshed content line‑up and an over‑the‑‑top streaming option.
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Eventwatch
Exclusive Steffen Roehn interview and DTW23 – Ignite preview: The view from TM Forum’s transformative top
Ahead of the telecoms industry’s digital transformation gathering in Copenhagen, TM Forum chair and visionary Steffen Roehn shares key perspectives on partnering hyperscalers (and leveraging B2B in Europe), Asia-the-innovator, un-learning the past, ‘greenfield in the mind’, software-or-extinction, the Forum’s own reset and new CEO Playbook and much more…
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O2 tinkers with Ericsson cloud RAN
Ericsson trials its cloud RAN technology with O2 Germany, harnessing millimetre wave spectrum to deliver multi‑Gigabit speeds.
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IoT tops agenda as £6.4bn framework contract launched
VM O2 and its major peers throw their hats in the ring for range of public sector services contracts covering legacy and emerging technologies.
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Innovation (R&D)
DT showcases “dynamically orchestrated” 5G network slicing
Proof of concept shown in multivendor environment using TM Forum open APIs.
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Public Affairs
BT calls for pro-adoption, principles-based AI regulation
Public Policy Director Daniel Wilson urges UK government to build pro-adoption into its AI approach, lauds pro-innovation building blocks.
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Innovation (R&D)
Generative AI can ‘cut months’ from transformation, says BT
BT’s CDIO Harmeen Mehta: generative AI can cut “months, if not years out of our transformation”, but only if you “get to the tail”.