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KPN has nominated Mayte Oosterveld and Natasja Laheij to its Supervisory Board. Shareholders will vote on both at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in April 2027. Oosterveld was chief financial officer of Just Eat Takeaway.com from 2024 to 2026. She previously held senior roles at PLUS Retail and Ahold Delhaize, and sits on the supervisory boards of Royal Vopak and Royal Ahrend. Laheij was CFO EMEA Consumer Apps, Platforms & Devices at Google from 2019 to 2024, and has worked at Amazon, Apple, and Sony Ericsson. She chairs the board of ASOS PLC and serves on the supervisory board of PostNL. They would replace Jolande Sap and Marga de Jager, who are leaving. The appointments take effect at the close of the 2027 AGM, and aim to strengthen the board's financial, strategic, technological, and international expertise.

Cisco presents 19 partner awards, top prize goes to KPN. Cisco has named KPN Netherlands Partner of the Year. In total, nineteen partner awards were presented by Cisco. According to Cisco, KPN distinguishes itself this year within the partner network through Cisco Powered managed services and a shared ambition in the field of secure networking. Cisco regards KPN as an adviser and implementation partner for demanding, business-critical environments at enterprise and public organizations. The customer teams of both companies work closely together on these complex projects. KPN also won the award for Enterprise Partner of the Year. Awards distributed among multiple partners. Avit Group won two awards: One Cisco Partner of the Year and Collaboration Partner of the Year. NTT DATA Netherlands also received two, for Services and Software Excellence and for Capital. Axians won the awards for Managed Services and Marketing. Conscia won the sustainability award and shares the AI Cloud award with OpenLine. Computacenter won in the Networking category, Proximus NXT in Security and Exellyn in Commercial. SMT received the Splunk award, TD SYNNEX became Distributor of the Year and SLTN won in the public sector. HOB ICT Security won in the SMB and Mid-Market segment and Simac received the Digital Acceleration Netherlands award. Marie Louise Bol was named Personality of the Year. Purpose of the Partner Awards. According to the company, the Cisco Partner Awards are part of its strategy to recognize the role of partners in shared success. Cisco thereby emphasizes the importance of collaboration and of partnerships that support innovation and growth. Dennis Veltman, director of partnerships at Cisco Benelux, points out that the collaboration with KPN has existed for more than thirty years. He cites the growth KPN achieved in all market segments over the past year and the company's role in managed services. According to him, KPN's ambition to continue innovating also plays a part. Veltman congratulates KPN and the other winners. In the photo from left to right: Michel Harren, Jesse Gerritse, Hakim Annaciri, Marie-Louise Bol, Michel van Wissen, Cynthia Koetsier-Beerten, Michael Kleine, Dennis Veltman About Wouter Hoeffnagel. Wouter Hoeffnagel is manager online content at Dutch IT Media He is an expert in the field of ICT and has been writing about it for years in the form of news reports and insightful articles.

Eurobites: Orange and friends look to develop Irish subsea link. Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Vodafone offers Express Capacity; Ukrainians slam Starlink outage; creditors sue Patrick Drahi. Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading October 14, 2026 Orange has teamed up with infrastructure investor Equitix and Irish subsea cable developer MDM for a joint venture hoping to develop a new subsea cable link between Ireland and continental Europe. Called Pisces, the route will stretch for around 3,125km, connecting Galway (Ireland), Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez (France), Sopelana (Spain) - where a new landing station will be built by Orange - and Carcavelos (Portugal). The project will be partly funded by the EU's Connecting Europe Facility. Ireland, which is seen as something of a tax haven by many large technology companies, is a major European cloud and datacenter hub for hyperscalers and AI frontrunners. Carine Romanetti, a recognized subsea expert, has been appointed CEO of the joint venture. Vodafone offers Express Capacity. Vodafone Business has launched Express Capacity, a service intended to deliver either 100G or 400G transport links to large organizations looking to expand their cloud and AI capabilities within 15 days. Drawing on Vodafone's European backbone network, Express Capacity will initially provide connectivity across existing routes linking key hubs in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Marseille and Milan. Ukrainians slam Starlink outage. Ukraine military bloggers have accused Elon Musk's SpaceX of deliberately restricting access to its satellite connectivity terminals at the request of Donald Trump. According to a Guardian report, the resulting outage came as Russia launched a deadly salvo of ballistic missiles at Ukraine on Tuesday evening, with no warning from the US. The US has for years provided the country with intelligence when such strikes were about to happen, says the report. Serhiy Beskrestnov, described as an adviser to Ukraine's President Zelensky, said: "Our armed forces did not receive a warning about these restrictions and this led to the failure of a number of missions. It's clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is connected to the current political situation." (See Eurobites: Ukraine's Kyivstar signs Starlink deal and Ukraine's networks still standing but need help.) Creditors sue Patrick Drahi. Creditors have sued Patrick Drahi's Altice International, alleging it illegally shifted assets worth billions of dollars out of their reach, according to a Financial Times report (paywall may apply). The aggrieved lenders filed the suit in New York's Supreme Court on Tuesday in what is a ratcheting up of a long-running dispute between the parties. (See Altice's telecom assets remain in the balance amid debt shake-up.) Netflix lands World Cup rights in Spain. Netflix has secured the Spanish rights to the soccer World Cup in 2030, with the proviso that all Spain's matches as well as the semi-finals and the final will be screened free-to-air by a national broadcaster. Spain is one of three countries hosting the event, along with Morocco and Portugal. The streaming giant already holds broadcast rights (for the US and Canada) to the women's World Cups in 2027 and 2031. (See Netflix to join Disney, Apple, others in live streaming battleground.) Du claims world first with U6GHz launch. Middle East operator Du is claiming a world first with the commercial launch of U6GHz connectivity over its 5G network. Du says the launch helps pave the way for the introduction of 6G networks in the future. KPN teams up with banks for digital ID venture. Dutch incumbent operator KPN has signed up to a Dutch coalition developing MyCheck, a digital ID system. According to EU rules, all member states must develop such a system by the end of 2026. KPN says MyCheck will offer a Dutch alternative to similar services being offered by large international technology companies. ABN AMRO, Achmea, ASN Bank, Deloitte and Rabobank are the other companies currently participating in the joint project. A1, Antik extend Eutelsat partnerships. A1 Group and Antik Telecom have extended their respective partnerships with Eutelsat to deliver TV services across Slovakia and the Czech Republic from the satellite company's 16° East orbital position. Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading Paul is based on the Isle of Wight, a rocky outcrop off the English coast that is home only to a colony of technology journalists and several thousand puffins. He has worked as a writer and copy editor since the age of William Caxton, covering the design industry, D-list celebs, tourism and much, much more. During the noughties Paul took time out from his page proofs and marker pens to run a small hotel with his other half in the wilds of Exmoor. There he developed a range of skills including carrying cooked breakfasts, lying to unwanted guests and stopping leaks with old towels. Now back, slightly befuddled, in the world of online journalism, Paul is thoroughly engaged with the modern world, regularly firing up his VHS video recorder and accidentally sending text messages to strangers using a chipped Nokia feature phone. Want more Light Reading stories in your Google search results? Join 62,000+ members. Yes it's completely free.