BT Group appoints Allison Kirkby as new chief executive

BT Group plc announces the appointment of Allison Kirkby as chief executive. She will take over from Philip Jansen as chief executive around the end of January 2024.

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From telcos to techcos ~ How telco aggregation is changing industry

The telecommunications industry is experiencing a much-needed shift, driven by the aggregation of telcos. This aggregation, characterised by mergers and acquisitions, is reshaping the landscape of telecoms infrastructure, businesses, and

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José María Álvarez-Pallete takes over as chairman of Virgin Media O2’s board

The chairman of Telefónica, José María Álvarez-Pallete, takes over as chairman of the board of directors of VMO2, replacing Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries.

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Virgin Media, Amdocs’ Vubiquity expand collaboration in UK

Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has announced that its Vubiquity platform has been selected to continue to provide Virgin Media’s customers with Electronic

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Mavenir’s virtualised IMS powers Virgin Media O2’s mobile network

Reading, England – Mavenir, a network software provider building future of networks with cloud-native solutions that run on any cloud, and Virgin Media O2 have announced the complete migration of

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Juniper Networks upgrades Virgin Media O2’s core IP backbone network to 800G readiness

California, Sunnyvale, United States. 23 January 2023 –Juniper Networks, a secure, AI-driven networks, announced that Virgin Media O2, is fixed and mobile service provider with approximately 50 million online media connections,

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Dublin City, Virgin Media to field trial a Wi-Fi4EU-compliant network using TIP’s OpenWiFi solution

Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi is ideal for publicly sponsored urban Wi-Fi deployments. It allows the selection of the most appropriate solution based on use case rather than a single

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Vodafone and Three should get their way on big merger

Vodafone UK has moved to merge with Three UK, which, if the move gets past regulators, would bring down the number of major mobile operators in the UK to, ironically,

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Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia form joint venture to build a new fibre network in the UK

Denver, Colorado & Madrid, Spain & Paris, France. 29 July 2022 – Liberty Global plc and Telefonica Infra, S.L.U, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telefonica, S.A., together with InfraVia Capital

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WBA OpenRoaming enables Dublin’s smart city vision with secure, high-performance Wi-Fi

London, United Kingdom. 20 June 2022 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and City of Dublin announced a successful proof of concept trial of OpenRoaming in Dublin, Ireland. Initially deployed

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