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Boldyn deploys neutral host DAS at The O2 Belfast as 12,000-seat arenas become the hardest RF environment in the built world

Author: Archie Villaflores

Boldyn Networks has deployed a neutral-host DAS at The O2 Belfast, with O2 customers first to access the upgraded connectivity. The deployment improves mobile capacity at one of Northern Ireland’s busiest venues while supporting future access for other UK operators.

Morrisons deploys Everseen's vision AI across self-checkout tills

Author: Archie Villaflores

Morrisons has partnered with Cork-based Everseen to deploy Vision AI monitoring across 200 UK self-checkout stores. The rollout reflects rising retail investment in AI tools designed to speed transactions and protect customer experience.

Capita books £424.6 million TfL extension and sells contact centre for £1 in the same week

Author: Archie Villaflores

A five-year regulated public sector contract and a £1 disposal of the division that was dragging margins define what Capita is becoming more clearly than any strategy document could.

Monzo Business reaches one million UK customers as digital banking closes the SME switching gap

Author: Archie Villaflores

One million business customers in a decade reveals both Monzo's pace and the structural inertia of UK SME bankingm, and the Dublin expansion plan makes this a direct threat to AIB and Bank of Ireland's incumbent position.

TAPP builds 50-pilot proof of concept before seeking £800,000 to take NFC platform beyond Northern Ireland

Author: Archie Villaflores

A Holywood startup replacing QR codes with NFC taps is entering a market where smartphone hardware is finally ready and post-pandemic friction fatigue has made the incumbent technology unpopular, the timing is more deliberate than it looks.

Volvo Cars Ireland franchisees commit €40 million to reposition network ahead of centenary

Author: Archie Villaflores

A manufacturer-coordinated retail overhaul funded entirely by franchise partners is less a property investment than a brand strategy: in a premium EV market where product parity is narrowing, the showroom becomes the primary differentiator.

Gavin Carpenter confirmed as judge for Irish CX Impact Awards 2026

Author: Archie Villaflores

Gavin Carpenter, CEO of Phonovation since 2006, joins the judging panel for the Irish CX Impact Awards 2026, bringing two decades of senior leadership in telecommunications and customer engagement technology alongside prior experience in senior management roles at Esat Telecom, Energis, and Colt Telecom. As the driving force behind one of Ireland's leading customer service technology companies, Carpenter contributes a practitioner's command of digital customer experience, service excellence, and the technology decisions that underpin effective customer-centric strategy to the evaluation process.

Protecting the Gains: What the Qualtrics 2026 Consumer Experience Trends Report Tells Irish Organisations About Building on Progress

Author: Archie Villaflores

Qualtrics' 2026 Global Consumer Experience Trends Report finds customer satisfaction and trust improving but fragile. Irish organisations that protect CX gains through better signal collection, service quality investment, and transparent personalisation will convert fragile progress into durable competitive advantage.

Endava and Upstream Works launch agentic CX platform to capture AI-native enterprise demand

Author: Archie Villaflores

A NYSE-listed technology group with falling high-value client numbers is productising its AI capability into a pre-packaged CX platform, a structurally different sales motion designed to bypass the stalled enterprise procurement cycles its own results have exposed.

Take2Eton recruits Reed and Mackay's client experience chief to anchor growth push

Author: Archie Villaflores

An independent TMC creating a CCO role and filling it with a direct competitor's senior talent signals that informal service culture is being replaced by formal commercial architecture as the business scales.

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The Irish CX Impact Awards 2026

The Irish CX Impact Awards 2026

November 4th, 2026

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry

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