Croatian operator T-Hrvatski Telekom , part of the broader Deutsche Telekom empire, has gone with Poland's Comarch SA as its OSS vendor of choice. The overall aim of the deal is to consolidate Hrvatski Telekom's OSS environment, which is built from a number of legacy systems, and to speed up service and product delivery.

Orange (NYSE: FTE) has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation -- which describes itself as the "home of the industry-standard platform for cloud applications" -- as a Silver Member. Existing members include Google, HPE, IBM and VMware. Orange has had links with the Cloud Foundry since 2012, making various open source contributions to the platform's ecosystem. (See Orange Joins Cloud Foundry Foundation.)

UK mobile operator Three UK has appointed Shadi Halliwell as its new chief marketing officer. Halliwell has more than 20 years in the telecom industry, though her most recent berth was at Harvey Nichols, the upmarket department store beloved of AbFab's Edina and Patsy. Simply marvellous tariffs, daaahling…

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading