All TelcoTitans Premium Content articles – Page 185
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PremiumArch Summit 2018: Special Report
The two-day inaugural Arch Summit held in Luxembourg at the start of May 2018 revealed much about Vodafone Procurement Company’s (VPC) ambitions for its joint venture and event host Tomorrow Street, and how it seeks to evolve relationships with suppliers.
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PremiumVodafone Group shifting advertising functions in-house
Operator’s relentless focus on supply chain savings extends to media management. Group Commercial looking increasingly keen on media analytics sideline.
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PremiumVodafone’s Secure Net ‘quietly builds’ €160m top-line
CEO trumpets top-line impact from European up-selling venture.
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PremiumSix years later, TeraStream breaks cover
Long-awaited cloud telco platform re-surfaces as enabler for HT’s new top-of-the-range broadband offering. Deutsche Telekom remains silent on when TeraStream set to expand to new NatCos.
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PremiumDeutsche Telekom quietly prepping Dutch and German tower revamps
New Group tower buddy Cellnex stresses “strategic” nature of relationship in Switzerland.
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PremiumDeutsche Telekom joins TEAC club to disrupt network suppliers
TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Centre established on home turf. Group expands effort to upend traditional infrastructure supply chains. First three startups selected cover beamforming, network virtualisation, and phased-array antenna technology.
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Public AffairsMichael Sherman: Agile new strategy and transformation head at BT
BT Group appointed Michael Sherman, a US-based management consultant, to the role of Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer. Boston Consulting veteran flying in to revamped executive team in May 2018. New senior team member will be an advocate of agile management approaches and major overhaul of traditional telco thinking. ...
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Public AffairsVodafone-Afrimax partnership takes another blow
African market realities continue to bite Vodafone’s regional partner Afrimax Group, as a second of the operator’s business units hit difficulties. Another setback for Vodafone’s diminishing Partner Markets federation as flagship sub-Saharan African commercial and operational collaboration is reduced to just one territory.
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Strategy & ChangeVodafone Group puts on a new look in Canada
The renaming of Vodafone’s local unit gives a nod to recent years’ increased interest in ties with Canadian vendors and operators.
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PremiumEricsson vs Nokia in Telefónica’s 5G city face-off
Telefónica unveiled its 5G Technological Cities project, which will see initial deployments of pre-5G technology and services in two Spanish cities that the telco is describing as “living laboratories”. Ericsson and Nokia have each been appointed as a technology partner in one city, and will undertake parallel testing ...
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PremiumEE boosts carrier billing with Boku
EE expanded its relationship with carrier billing specialist Boku, with two deals announced in quick succession. EE customers can now link a Google Play account to their mobile phone bill. Boku is enabling EE customers to buy physical goods from EE and charge them to mobile accounts.
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PremiumAmdocs makes T-Mobile US billing comeback
Amdocs quietly revealed it had secured a sizeable IT engagement with TMUS, via recently acquired Irish billing software vendor Brite:Bill.
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Venturing & InvestmentsWelcome interlopers: BT’s TEAC launch event
Opening of the TEAC shows BT embracing a more dynamic approach to identifying disruptive technology, recognising the convergence of telecoms and IT. Startups in the fields of IoT, open networking, and quantum security selected as winners of the six-month innovation search.
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Venturing & InvestmentsVodafone Ventures arm still on snooze as startups move on and up
Visions of tumbleweed continued to pervade around Vodafone’s rudderless venture capital unit, as its portfolio of past “strategic” investments was allowed to erode further.
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PremiumCornerstone overhauled by JV partners
Greater flexibility injected in new terms. London partnership rolled back, as O2 presses on with City of London deal. Vodafone-led rejig expected to see the O2 rival accelerate its own network development beyond delay-hit Project Beacon.