AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoVodafone Shake-Up: e& (Emirates Telecommunications Group) is exiting Vodafone, ending its relationship agreement and selling its full 16.21% stake to Vega for about $5.95bn, with e&’s board nominee stepping down—another major portfolio reset in European telecoms. Telstra Outage Fallout: Telstra CEO Vicki Brady apologised after a nationwide outage disrupted triple-zero emergency calls, payments and transport, with police investigating a possible link to a death; the disruption was tied to a software/timekeeping fault. Cybercrime Crackdown: Nigeria’s police arrested 21 suspects over telecom billing manipulation and other fraud, including an alleged MTN Nigeria scheme causing about ₦7.7bn in losses. AI Trust Standards: The ITU launched a focus group on trust, identity and agentic AI to set frameworks for trusted digital identity and accountable AI agents, with meetings in Paris and Geneva. Digital Sovereignty Move: Pakistan will gradually migrate government websites and services from overseas hosting to local data centres under a new cybersecurity framework. Skills Push in Africa: Telkom pledged R100m to create an AI institute for job-ready digital skills in South Africa, aligned with ITU WSIS Partner2Connect commitments. GNSS Security Research: New work embeds physical laws into spoofing detection to catch GNSS spoofing even in unfamiliar attack scenarios.
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