Vodafone
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Sky News has reported that Alison Kirby, BT Group’s CEO, has reinitiated plans to sell its Irish corporate business. -
Auramo will replace Giorgio Migliarina, who has been serving as interim CEO since September 2023, on July 1 of this year.
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Nokia and Vodafone are collaborating to test the viability of L4S technology over passive optical networks (PON), which could greatly improve activities such as video conferencing and gaming.
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Vodafone has agreed to sell its Italian unit to Swisscom for €8 billion as Margherita Della Valle aims to simplify operations for the UK-based group.
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Vodafone Turkey and Edgenex Datacentres by DAMAC are collaborating to establish a new data centre facility in Izmir Turkey.
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Vodafone confirms plans to build new Open Radio Access Network (RAN) sites in 20 cities across Romania.
Forthcoming events
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Under the terms of a new agreement between Vodafone and e&, Hatem Dowidar, group CEO of e& will join the Vodafone board as a non-executive director.
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Vodafone and e& have partnered to provide other operators with managed voice solutions.
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The iliad Group has submitted a proposal to Vodafone Group for the merger of iliad’s and Vodafone’s Italian businesses with the creation of a new entity (NewCo).
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Vodafone will partner with Accenture to commercialise its shared operations and accelerate growth.
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Vodafone and Nokia will pilot a commercial 5G Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) trial in Italy for the first time.
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Vodafone and its African subsidiary Vodacom plan to use the service as part of Project Kuiper’s 2024 Beta testing of the network
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First application will be to help better monitor cargo tracking pods
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The deployment will occur over several Vodafone markets in Europe, including the UK and Italy
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Exa Infrastructure has named Nick Read, former chief executive of Vodafone, as its chairperson.
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e& will take a seat on the Vodafone board as the relationship between the two continues to expand.
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The switch off from 3G will begin next month after a successful pilot earlier this year.
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Vodafone has confirmed the appointment of Margherita Della Valle as its permanent CEO, months after the CFO took the reins as interim chief.
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Vodafone and IBM are urging companies in the telecoms supply chain to make sure they are ready for the post-quantum world.
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Vinod Kumar, who joined Vodafone as CEO of its business unit in 2019, is to leave the group.
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A European authority is to investigate alleged state aid to the Iris subsea cable project in case it breached the rules.
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Vodafone is working with the University of Palermo in Italy to build a €4 million 5G campus.
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EdgeQ has partnered with Vodafone and Dell Technologies to launch an ORAN-based, massive MIMO solution.
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Orange and Vodafone are looking for strategic vendors for a pioneering open RAN collaboration in Romania.
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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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Vodafone will expand its European collaboration with Google in mobile messaging services, Pixel devices and its own TV platform.
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Vodafone has built a prototype 5G network using a Raspberry Pi computer that can serve a home or office.
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Liberty Global, the US group that owns 50% of Virgin Media O2 in the UK, has bought a 4.92% in the Vodafone group.
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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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The Telecel group does not plan to fire staff at Vodafone Ghana, which it acquired last month for a reported US$900 million.
