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• Many regional telcos serve MNCs headquartered outside their network footprint but need to communicate globally.

• Vodafone Business International is a successful example of this, offering SD-WANs, IoT, and device lifecycle management in addition to connectivity services to 400 businesses.

Communications service providers (CSPs) often derive revenues from multi-national companies (MNCs) that are headquartered outside the CSPs’ footprint. They may provide fixed or mobile connections that originate or terminate on their network. Target companies have facilities, customers, or supply chain partners in countries where they do business or need to frequently communicate with but where they do not have their headquarters location. Simple roaming relationships for mobile communications can provide global or near-global access for basic voice, data, and internet access; however, more complex, secure, reliable, ‘always-on’ communications are often required. For example, The FreeMove Alliance, a mobile telecommunications alliance between Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TIM, and Telia, serves as a mobile services hub that helps the top 500 MNCs in Europe optimize their investment in mobile connectivity by offering them global access to reliable networks through a central point of provisioning, management, and support.

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