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.

Walter Goldenits CTO of Deutsche Telekom’s German operator, Telekom Deutschland, talks about competition and partnerships, and delivering digitisation and 5G with Annie Turner.

CEO Omar Qaise (pictured) talks to Annie Turner about being the first to combine satellite and terrestrial networks using ordinary 5G phone chips.

Airtel’s CTO Randeep Sekhon and Bradley Mead of Ericsson talked to Annie Turner about the urgency of their joint approach to automation.

The VP and CTIO of UPC Polska and UPC Slovakia talks to Annie Turner.