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The Fast Mode Podcasts: Breaking News, Analysis and Updates From Telecoms Industry · Beyond Connectivity: Building the Telco Platform Business · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm Tara Neel and with me today is Raj Shastri, VP of Mergers and Acquisition, Telenor.

Telenor Group is a leading telecommunications and technology company in the Nordics and Asia, serving over 200 million customers with an annual revenue of NOK 80 billion in 2025.

Welcome Raj.

Great to have you on today's episode.

Awesome.

Okay, so let's dive right in.

The telecoms industry is going through another wave of transformation.

So what's driving M&A activity today and how are priorities changing compared to a few years back?

And therefore, naturally leads to more mergers and acquisitions as they try to get new capabilities in-house, right?

Sometimes they already established organizations with these capabilities and merging and acquiring will bring those capabilities on board so that you can go to market faster.

Yeah.

So, you know, another thing that we want to talk about, you know, as telcos evolve beyond connectivity into digital infrastructure and platform business, right?

What kind of partnerships or acquisitions are becoming most strategically important?

So you mentioned about JV, right?

So I think that's a great model to go to market together where Telco brings in the connectivity portion and then your partner company brings in the vertical expertise, as well as the other elements that are important for implementation, like on the device side.

and also on the platform side, like you mentioned.

So platforms are becoming a core capability to enable a lot of, you know, industrial applications.

So basically, telcos positioning themselves as leaders in this area, you know, IoT and enterprise side of things would require this sort of capabilities to come together.

And I guess, you know, you have mentioned where Telenor is positioning itself, and I think it's quite remarkable.

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