Vodafone makes its digital services, GenAI bed with Microsoft

Vodafone Group CEO Margherita Della Valle and Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella. Source: Vodafone Group Vodafone has struck a 10-year digital services and generative AI partnership with Microsoft The companies will team up closely on enterprise service development and delivery Vodafone will invest $1.5bn in co-development work with Microsoft The big tech firm will invest in Vodafone’s IoT unit, which will soon be run as a standalone business Vodafone and Microsoft have struck a deep and far-reaching digital services and generative AI (GenAI) partnership that will tie them together strategically and financially, and see the telco and big tech giant work hand-in-hand across multiple customer sectors and geographies. The two giant companies, which have already been working together on specific cloud-related projects, have signed a 10-year deal that Vodafone believes can help it become a leading edge digital service provider (DSP) to its 300 million-plus customer base across Europe and Africa. Vodafone will invest $1.5bn during the coming decade in “cloud and customer-focused AI services developed in conjunction with Microsoft,” while the big tech giant will use Vodafone’s fixed and mobile connectivity services. “Today, Vodafone has made a bold commitment to the digital future of Europe and Africa,” […]

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