Telefónica
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Telefónica Tech has reached an agreement with Snowflake, a data cloud company, to commercialise its technology in Europe.
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KKR, Telefónica Hispanoamérica, and Entel have signed agreements under which KKR will acquire a majority stake in PangeaCo.
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The heavy weights of the global connectivity landscape took to the stage on day 1 of International Telecoms Week, facilitated by the ITW Global Leaders Forum (GLF).
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Five of Europe’s biggest mobile operators said today that they plan to deploy open RAN networks from 2025, following trials.
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Four European telcos are to form a joint venture to build their own digital marketing technology platform.
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Telefónica has issued a €1 billion bond that it describes as a “green hybrid” and is linked to the company’s aims for energy efficiency and sustainability.
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A group of 16 telcos have called on Big Tech to share the costs of telecom networks citing the rising costs associated with energy crisis and EU climate goals.
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Telefónica and Qualcomm Technologies are partnering to bolster their offerings in the areas of extended reality (XR) and the metaverse.
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Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone, together with the deep tech company MATSUKO, have carried out a pilot for holographic calls.
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US hedge fund KKR has completed its US$3.8 billion acquisition of cloud-first security company Barracuda from Thoma Bravo as it continues to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity and fibre network assets.
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Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia Capital Partners have formed a joint venture (JV) that will build a new fibre network in the UK via a £4.5 billion cash injection.
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Telefónica Group, Crédit Agricole Assurances (CAA) and Vauban Infrastructure Partners (Vauban), are to establish Bluevia Fibra S.L. (Bluevia), a new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) company in Spain.
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More than 30 carriers have collectively witnessed a seven-fold increase in inbound international voice calls to Ukraine in a single month.
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Telefónica has marked the beginning of celebrating its 100th birthday by announcing a pact with OneWeb to provide satellite connectivity services across Europe and Latin America.
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Telefónica Vivo is to deploy a 5G-ready IP network for its converged mobile and fixed networks with Cisco and NEC Corporation as its technology partners.
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A New York-based company that is working with Telefónica says it has developed a quantum-based key system that is available in the cloud.
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Researchers at two European centres for 5G innovation have communicated via video link using the seamless connectivity delivered by integrated terrestrial and satellite networks.
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Telefónica chairman and CEO José María Álvarez-Pallete is to chair the board of the GSMA, in the latest consequence of the removal of Stéphane Richard from the leadership of Orange.
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Google has hired Telxius’s Enrique Valdes to join its global network acquisition team, based in Zürich, after nearly two decades with the Telefónica group.
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Calls to and from Telefónica’s mobile customers in some parts of rural Germany are now being backhauled by satellite, following a deal with Intelsat
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The interim results of Deutsche Telekom’s partnership with AIT to develop a European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI) have now been delivered.
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CEOs from 13 of Europe's top telcos have inked a letter in which they say that US tech giants should contribute to the costs of building Europe's telecoms networks.
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Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia (TIM), Telefónica and Vodafone have submitted five recommendations to the European Union (EU) to build an Open RAN ecosystem in Europe.
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Vodafone is claiming that a new deal with CityFibre will make it the biggest full fibre provider in the UK.
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Only four telcos from around the world have signed Amazon’s Climate Pledge, which the data centre, streaming and delivery company started in 2019.
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Gary Hope, strategy and regulation director at Telefónica Global Solutions, talks about the need to differentiate the wholesale offering and transform the customer relationship
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Telefónica has moved Mark Evans, who was CEO of its O2 UK operation, to become the group’s chief strategy and development officer.
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Telefónica has reportedly hired investment banks Barclays and LionTree to find it a finance partner for its UK fibre network.
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Telefónica has put its weight behind international development goals, saying it wants to deploy sustainable, resilient and quality infrastructures.
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Telefónica has acquired Barcelona-based cloud consulting company Altostratus.
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A socially distanced Mobile World Congress Barcelona kicked off earlier this week with the heavy weighs of the European telecoms space all hinting at the same thing, changes in regulation and a fairer playing field.
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Italian operator TIM has set up an open RAN test and integration lab in the city of Turin.
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The five large European telcos working together on open RAN have published their list of technical priorities as a way of encouraging vendors to move into the business.
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Telefónica Deutschland and 1&1 Drillisch have entered into a National Roaming Agreement (NRA).
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The five giant European mobile operators that are working together on open RAN say they will start large-scale rollout next year.
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TIM has deployed its first open RAN network following an agreement between five European operators earlier this year to work together on new network technology.
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the £31 billion proposed merger of Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile with O2.
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Telefónica is working with two quantum companies to integrate the emerging technology into its cloud service that is hosted in its virtual data centres.
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Telefónica is rumoured to be avoiding an outright sale of its subsea cable unit.
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Five of the world’s largest telecoms groups have announced an accelerated programme to implement open 4G and 5G this year. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at why the field has suddenly opened up
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The Facebook-backed project that is supporting open-source mobile technology has started a new unit to promote private 5G networks.
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Matrixx Software has joined Tech Mahindra and Wipro in a project to transform the IT architecture of Telefónica’s O2 Germany.