Kavit Majithia

Deutsche Telekom revealed an executive shake-up which includes the departure of CFO Christian Illek in April 2027 to be replaced by Dhananjay Mirchandani, in addition to naming a new technology boss. In a statement, the operator explained Illek is departing for “age-related reasons” ending a 20-year stint at the company which included roles as chief HR officer and positions within the Technology department.

Telstra CEO Vicki Brady (pictured) disclosed the findings from an external review into a network outage earlier this year, confirming the issue was caused by a technical event within its timing system. The Australian operator released the results from an investigation conducted by Technology Audit Partners (TAP), which backed up its own account released on 8 July when the outage occurred.

Alphabet agreed to pay £260 million to end a class action lawsuit in the UK, after the technology giant was accused of levying unfair charges against app developers. The settlement has been reached ahead of the trial commencing next week, but it still needs approval from the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Claimants alleged Google abused its dominant position in the market by charging developers excessively who sold apps on the Play Store in the UK.