Business Chief Europe Magazine March 2016 | Page 40

TELEFÓNICA DEUTSCHLAND

“ I and my team are carrying out the integration into a single , seamless network ... the biggest network integration that has ever been undertaken , anywhere ”

– Cayetano Carbajo , CTO technology that underpins communications in Europe has evolved a long way from the CDMA networks that he was dealing with in Mexico . It is an environment in which a creative , questing spirit is more important than being versed in the traditional ways of doing things , he says . “ As CTO my job is changing all the time . I am leading the integration and evolution of both networks and service platforms , and what we are finding is that our situation here is not really analogous with any other country . Currently we have two networks because Telefónica Deutschland acquired E-Plus in 2014 and we had the network from O2 as well . I and my team are carrying out the integration into a single , seamless network . I do believe that this is the biggest network integration
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