BT, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Millicom, MTS, Orange, Rogers, TeliaSonera and TIM have joined forces to build a new Partnering Operator Alliance with the aim of more efficiently and quickly bringing innovative products and services to customers around the world. The operators represent a potential customer base of around 1 billion in more than 80 countries around the world.
The Alliance focuses on exchanging best practices on how to bring partner propositions to the market, joint efforts in partner scouting and sharing knowledge about upcoming trends and services amongst the group. The Alliance has established relationships with 30 innovative partner businesses including AirBnB, Celltick, Disconnect, Idoomoo, Magisto, Mojio and Spotify.
It is an open network of like-minded operators worldwide with complementary geographical footprints. The alliance covers all relevant product categories within an operator’s business, mobile as well as fixed, B2C as well as B2B. The alliance expects to expand to additional operators soon.
Source: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/nine-leading-telcos-forge-partner-alliance--1128056