# Eurobites: Vodafone, Tech Mahindra team up to help businesses lost in digital maze > Source: > Published: 2026-08-26 10:32:20+00:00 Featured Story ## ZTE sees network business slump, costs soar and jobs vanish China's ZTE reports a widening delta between revenues and profits as its expensive-to-run enterprise unit powers ahead of networks on sales growth. Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ad-supported streaming hits primetime in Finland; BICS renews with EcoVadis; Swisscom targets twentysomethings. Vodafone has hooked up with India's Tech Mahindra to help create "propositions" (move over, "solutions") intended to help UK businesses grappling with the digital complexity created by AI, the cloud and all that carry-on. According to Vodafone, the collaboration – or "framework," as the two companies style it – will help both companies identify opportunities where their complementary capabilities could help befuddled customers simplify their operations, modernize their technology and deliver quantifiable results. (See [Vodafone hones skill of 'failing fast' to identify viable AI use cases](/ai-machine-learning/vodafone-hones-skill-of-failing-fast-to-identify-viable-ai-use-cases).) Ad-supported streaming is making its presence felt in cost-conscious Finland, according to a [report](https://yle.fi/a/74-20242926) on Finnish news website YLE. Citing a study by Mediavision, the report says that market share of so-called hybrid subscriptions to streaming services in Finland rose from 15% last year to 21% this year. Consumers in Finland now spend an average of €62 (US$72) per month on media services which, says YLE, is significantly less than what is spent on such things by their Nordic neighbors. BICS, the international services arm of Belgium's Proximus, has extended its contract with EcoVadis, a provider of business sustainability ratings. Part of BICS' role is to provide the connectivity for a whistleblowing hotlines which the employees of those businesses being assessed for sustainability – or ESG – ratings can use to report corporate misconduct without fearing repercussions. BICS first landed its contract with EcoVadis three years ago. Swisscom is targeting the under-28s with 50% off certain standard mobile tariffs. The [Young Benefit](https://swisscom.ch/youngbenefit) discount, as it is called, applies to Swisscom's Blue Mobile range of tariffs and is aimed at people under the age of 28 who live independently or have their own mobile phone contract. Those who haven't fled the nest or still aren't paying their own way, connectivity-wise, may be able to take advantage of the [We Are Family](https://swisscom.ch/we-are-family) offer. Despite a fair bit of coverage of the issue in the media, Brits are still very confused about what to do in the face of the imminent demise of traditional landlines. This is according to a survey of 2,000 adults by Community Fibre, a UK alternative network provider (altnet), which found that 45% of those asked do not fully understand what they need to do ahead of the big switch-off of the old analog phone system in January 2027. Before responding to the survey, 48% were unaware that the switch-off of the service, known as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), could affect devices in the home other than phones, such as personal emergency pendants and security alarms. (See [Get off the PSTN! – Openreach set to pull plug on ancient tech](/fttx/get-off-the-pstn-openreach-set-to-pull-plug-on-ancient-tech) and [Eurobites: Connect Europe suggests EU is overreaching on copper shutdown](/fttx/eurobites-connect-europe-suggests-eu-is-overreaching-on-copper-shutdown).) Read more about: