Vodafone
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The UK Government has cleared the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK on national security grounds – one of two regulatory hurdles to getting the deal through.
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Nokia and Vodafone have successfully completed an end-to end Open RAN trial on Vodafone Italy’s live 5G standalone (SA) network.
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Adri Loloci at Vodafone discusses Scam Signal, a new service for quashing social-engineering fraud.
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Sky News has reported that Alison Kirby, BT Group’s CEO, has reinitiated plans to sell its Irish corporate business.
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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.
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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.
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UK-based fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) operator Hyperoptic has recruited Lutfu Kitapci from Vodafone to lead a new push to connect consumers.
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Serpil Timuray will add Spain to her European responsibilities in Vodafone in a significant reshuffle that sees Colman Deegan, CEO of Vodafone Spain, stepping down at the end of March.
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Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have filed to a create a new joint venture (JV) for mobile advertising services.
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Vodafone has agreed terms to sell its business in Hungary operation to a local IT company and the Hungarian state.
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Safaricom Ethiopia has expanded to five additional cities, bringing its national footprint to 21 cities just three months after launching on 6 October.
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Vodafone Cook Islands is to use the new O3b mPower satellites, launched a few days ago, to extend its 4G services across the islands.
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Irish mobile operators will pay more than €140 million each for spectrum bands to boost the roll out of 5G across Ireland.
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Vodafone has partnered with global synthetic data firm Hazy to test the use of synthetic data to help companies in executing data science projects.
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Vodacom has taken a 55% majority stake in Vodacom Egypt; the company has announced.
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Inwit, the Italian tower company, is awarding all non-managerial staff a €1,000 bonus because of the rise in the cost of living in Europe.
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e&, formerly known as Etisalat has increased its stake in Vodafone Group to 11%.
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Vodafone confirms plans to install OpenRAN on 16 mobile masts providing connectivity to customers in Exmouth and Torquay.
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Vodafone has appointed Margherita Della Valle as interim CEO of the group, following the announcement that Nick Read is stepping down.
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Vodafone has signed an agreement with the conversational intelligence and unified recording platform Dubber to offer recording and AI services to customers in the UK and Germany.
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Vodafone’s group chief commercial officer, Alex Froment-Curtil, is leaving at the end of the year to join another company.
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Ethiopia’s telecoms regulator has revived its plan to seek a competitor for state-owned Ethio Telecom and new rival Safaricom, which has been in business just months.
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Satellite company AST SpaceMobile has successfully spread out its giant communications array for its test satellite, BlueWalker 3, which was launched in September.
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IBM will collaborate with Vodafone on quantum-safe cybersecurity as the operator joins the IBM Quantum Network.
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Vodafone Group has entered into a partnership with a consortium of infrastructure investors led by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and KKR for Vodafone’s 81.7% stake in Vantage Towers.
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KKR is said to be the frontrunner to acquire Vodafone’s $14 billion tower unit, Vantage Towers.
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Virgin Media Ireland and Vodafone have signed a wholesale network access deal that will allow Vodafone to offer its customers fast fixed-line broadband services.