CXO Interviews

BT's Neil McRae on Open RAN, public and telco cloud, network as code, partnerships and searching for the edge with Annie Turner.

Telefónica's Chairman will serve from February 2022 to December 2024

Another major European telco is undergoing changes at the top, in this case at DT's central Technology & Innovation division.

More changes at the top in Orange as the CEO of Orange Moldova moves to lead the opco in Slovakia from 1 April

Abdallah Nassar, Chief Engineering and Network Officer at Orange Cameroon, talked to Annie Turner about the long but fast-moving journey from telco to techco

Michaël Trabbia, CTO at Orange Group, talked to Annie Turner about the telco of the future.

Thomas van Briel is SVP, Architecture & Strategy at Deutsche Telekom. He talked to Annie Turner about DT’s end-game ambitions – creating value for customers.

Philippe Ensarguet, Group CTO at Orange Business Services, was the judges’ unanimous choice for the Trailblazer CTO of the Year Award 2021. He talks to Annie Turner.

There were differences of opinion concerning Open RAN, edge, hyperscalers and the move to cloud native and more. Annie Turner reports.

Our judging panel named Enrique Blanco, Global CTIO at Telefónica, Gamechanger CTO of the Year 2021. He talks to Annie Turner about what inspires him and why OSS is “the last piece of this extraordinary puzzle”.

Ingeborg Øfsthus, CTO of Telenor Norway, talked to Annie Turner about building and operating world-beating networks in extremely hostile terrain.

Rahul Atri has “worked for two or three greenfield companies” including Reliance Jio, which totally disrupted the Indian market, and various vendors.