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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:12:30 GMT</pubDate>

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    <title>Orange Business 2026 Analyst Event – Platforms, Partnerships, Sovereign Cloud, AI, and a Potential Rival to SD-WAN</title>
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    <description>Orange Business’s 2026 analyst summit highlighted the progress made with key projects such as internal IT transformation and Evolution Platform. Orange’s evolving go-to-market strategy is also developing to maximize and scale its platform investment.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton - John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-07-24T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Vodafone Business UK (VodafoneThree) - Business Services UK</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94921&amp;rss</link>
    <description>VodafoneThree has emerged from the merger with a stronger competitive position supported by its network integration, converged portfolio, and digital services. Investments in AI-enabled capabilities are also improving customer experience and NPS.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-07-16T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Vodafone Business International Provides Growing Global Channel for Out-of-Market Mobility and IoT</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133160&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Vodafone Business International is turning its out-of-footprint role into a real mobility and IoT growth engine, using partners to extend reach and attach higher-value services—though it still must overcome connectivity commoditization.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-07-14T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Proximus - Business Services Europe</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95144&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Proximus Global’s woes have deepened as Proximus Group welcomes a new strategy called Amplify 2030 to unlock growth in key areas such as AI, fiber, and cybersecurity, though this will require shrewd business planning in the years ahead.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-30T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>T-Mobile Global Industrial IoT Services</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=129659&amp;rss</link>
    <description>T-Mobile is catching up to rivals in IoT by leveraging its standalone 5G-Advanced network for slicing and RedCap and deploying T-Platform for unified management. However, it has disclosed no new IoT updates since late 2025.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-30T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>UK Plans Teen Social Media Ban but the Action Raises Questions About Enforceability - and Privacy</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=133090&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced this month that the government will introduce legislation later this year to block teen access to social media platforms.  But precedent shows similar bans in other countries have been largely ineffective.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-26T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Colt - Business Services Europe/Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94883&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Colt is expanding its footprint across its key markets (Europe, Asia-Pacific, and subsea) to strengthen its presence and advance its AI networking play. It is also forging deeper strategic partnerships to extend its off-net reach and drive AI innovation.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-06-25T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Computacenter - Business Services Europe</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94905&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Computacenter excels in customer service and experience, but it relies heavily on major vendor partners and large clients to maintain its strong traction.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2026-05-13T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Telefonica - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=96314&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Telefónica is advancing its autonomous networks and enhancing its digital portfolio leveraging AI. Its B2B segment remains a key growth engine with strong momentum across cybersecurity, cloud, and IoT.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Exponential-e - Business Services Europe</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94918&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Exponential-e continues to expand its ecosystem of technology partners, strengthening its AI capabilities to better serve both public and private sector customers, while maintaining strong momentum in securing new public sector contracts.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>BT International - Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=128996&amp;rss</link>
    <description>BT Group has established BT International as a standalone unit with its own profit and loss accountability, while simultaneously strengthening its partner ecosystem to drive growth through its digital platforms.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-22T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Wavenet - Business Services Europe</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=100690&amp;rss</link>
    <description>The recent merger with Daisy Corporate has boosted Wavenet’s overall revenue and outlook, with the company continuing to strengthen its strategic partnerships to capture more of the UC market, while launching new cybersecurity capabilities.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-22T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Virgin Media O2 Daisy - Business Services Europe</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94880&amp;rss</link>
    <description>O2 Daisy is investing GBP700 million in its mobile network and has added new satellite capabilities. Its merger with Daisy Group is ongoing and, while it has the potential to deliver B2B portfolio benefits, more go-to-market clarity is needed.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan - Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-09T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>A1 Telekom Austria Group - Business Services Europe</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95276&amp;rss</link>
    <description>A1 Telekom Austria Group is looking to scale up its ICT business via its A1 Digital unit. It is doing so by leveraging its investment in Exoscale to drive sovereignty and security products to businesses across Europe, and expanding its presence into Spain.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-08T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Deutsche Telekom - Business Services Europe / Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94881&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Deutsche Telekom is focusing on sovereignty in cloud and satellite solutions, in addition to boosting its AI initiatives, and industrial verticalization.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2026-04-08T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>ElevenLabs/IBM Tie-Up Looks Promising on Paper, but Some Big Questions Loom</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132735&amp;rss</link>
    <description>ElevenLabs and IBM are planning to integrate ElevenLabs’s text-to-speech and speech-to-text solutions with IBM watsonx Orchestrate agentic AI platform.  There are promising aspects to the partnership but also major concerns.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-27T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Verizon Business - US and Global Enterprise</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94926&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Verizon Business continues to be a premier competitor. It fills both fixed and mobile needs, serves customers of all sizes, and has a global brand. The Frontier acquisition and onboarding of a new CEO add momentum but also uncertainty.</description>
    <author>Gregg Willsky</author>
    <pubDate>2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>DXC Opens a New AI Deployment Practice Centered on Delivering Validated Solutions Efficiently</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132558&amp;rss</link>
    <description>DXC is opening an AI deployment practice for companies seeking integration support across heterogeneous environments. DXC is leveraging its own experience deploying the agentic AI-based Amazon Quick suite across its own IT estate.</description>
    <author>Amy Larsen DeCarlo</author>
    <pubDate>2026-02-11T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>KPN - Business Services Europe</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=94919&amp;rss</link>
    <description>KPN’s “Connect, Activate &amp; Grow” strategy is delivering steady B2B growth, with a converged one-stop-shop portfolio, strong fiber/5G, and a major new cybersecurity investment, though competition and price pressure remain intense.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2025-12-23T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile Strengthen European Sovereign Connectivity with New Satellite Venture in Germany</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132275&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile’s new EU satellite venture in Germany strengthens Europe’s sovereign connectivity goals, creating enterprise opportunities in secure hybrid networks, but the venture will face execution, adoption, and competitive risks.</description>
    <author>John Marcus</author>
    <pubDate>2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>In Focus: European Challengers - Altnets</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=125158&amp;rss</link>
    <description>European challengers both pose and face competition with incumbents and each other. The market is characterized by consolidation and battle for market share. Growth is hard won and driven by expanded network reach, innovation, and acquisitions.</description>
    <author>Robert Pritchard</author>
    <pubDate>2025-11-05T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Data WAN (UK): Competitive Landscape Assessment</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=102552&amp;rss</link>
    <description>The UK data WAN market is highly competitive, giving enterprises, public sector, and other organizations a wide choice of services from national and niche providers with ever faster, more secure, and better value connectivity to sites large and small.</description>
    <author>Robert Pritchard</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-20T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>ANS' Sci-Net Acquisition Positioned as Driving UK AI Readiness</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132185&amp;rss</link>
    <description>ANS is jumping on the AI bandwagon here – but who isn’t these days? The important thing is the acquisition underlines the broader importance of value-added services and enterprise solutions from managed service providers in a competitive market.</description>
    <author>Robert Pritchard</author>
    <pubDate>2025-10-15T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Networking for AI – Network Infrastructure to Meet AI Demands and AI-Ready Enterprise Network Requirements</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132089&amp;rss</link>
    <description>AI will be a long-term growth driver for networks, but creating networks to support AI is a conundrum. Following the AI data center boom is a sensible bet that is likely to pay off, but delivering AI networks for enterprises will be more difficult.</description>
    <author>Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2025-09-17T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>BT Sells Radianz in Ongoing International Strategy Refocus</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132050&amp;rss</link>
    <description>BT announced the sale of BT Radianz to Transaction Network Services (TNS), looking to complete in H1 2026. The sale of its financial exchange network moves BT closer toward its stated ambition of focusing on the UK market.</description>
    <author>Robert Pritchard - Gary Barton</author>
    <pubDate>2025-09-05T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>The EU is a Trailblazer, and the AI Act Proves It</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=132030&amp;rss</link>
    <description>August 2025 has been marked by the enforcement of a new set of rules as part of the AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive AI legislation, which is being implemented in gradual stages.</description>
    <author>Beatriz Valle</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>TI Sparkle - Wholesale</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=95132&amp;rss</link>
    <description>As Sparkle transitions under its new ownership of Retelit and Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, the company continues to collaborate with its global peers to strengthen its subsea connectivity footprint.</description>
    <author>Brendan Swan</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-29T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Mobily - Business Services Middle East</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=128489&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Mobily is investing heavily in submarine cables, cloud computing, and roaming, IoT, and wholesale services as it seeks to carve out a niche for itself in the face of competition with Zain and stc.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-20T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Orange Business Analyst Event 2025: Platforms, AI, Sovereign Cloud, and Security to Fuel Growth Ambitions in France, Europe, and MEA</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=131991&amp;rss</link>
    <description>Orange Business’s 2025 Insight analyst event set out a compelling future vision for the provider centered on AI and Orange’s ability to provide sovereign AI infrastructure, platforms, and consulting alongside the provider’s NaaS Evolution Platform</description>
    <author>Gary Barton - Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-20T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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    <title>MTN - Business Services Africa</title>
    <link>http://www.currentanalysis.com/COMPETE/FrontEnd/Report.aspx?rid=128488&amp;rss</link>
    <description>MTN has shut most non-African operations and has exited from low-performing African markets. It is diversifying from legacy services to B2B and enterprise 5G, though it continues to suffer financially from factors beyond its control.</description>
    <author>Ismail Patel</author>
    <pubDate>2025-08-12T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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