Vodafone Group Vodafone Group plc ( LON:VOD ) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced a new, far-reaching 10-year strategic partnership that leverages their respective strengths in offering scaled digital platforms to more than 300 million businesses, public sector organisations, and consumers across Europe and Africa. · Vodafone and Microsoft to transform the customer experience using Microsoft’s generative AI. · Vodafone to scale its new standalone IoT business with Microsoft. · Partnership will expand M-Pesa to improve financial inclusion across Africa. · Vodafone to grow enterprise business with new Microsoft services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). · Vodafone to accelerate digital transformation and operational efficiencies in virtual data centre migration to Microsoft Azure. Through the partnership, the companies will collaborate to transform Vodafone’s customer experience using Microsoft’s generative AI, hyperscale Vodafone’s leading managed IoT connectivity platform, develop new digital and financial services for businesses, particularly SMEs across Europe and Africa, and overhaul its global data centre cloud strategy. Vodafone will invest $1.5 billion over the next 10 years in cloud and customer-focused AI services developed in conjunction with Microsoft. Additionally, Microsoft will use Vodafone’s fixed and mobile connectivity services. Microsoft also intends to invest in Vodafone’s managed IoT connectivity […]
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