WELCOME TO THE December issue of Gigabit . VEON is one the world ’ s largest telcos . Founded as VimpelCom in Russia by an American entrepreneur and a Russian scientist , it grew to serve 230mn people in 12 wildly different territories – from Italy to Pakistan . But organic growth across such variable terrain left a legacy infrastructure as complex as it was huge . Enter CIO Yogesh Malik and a company-wide vision to transform from the foundations up .

VimplelCom became VEON in February this year and embarked on a transformation project the scale of which the industry had never seen . We met Malik at his Amsterdam HQ to find out more .

Also this month we delve into the vision of the BBC ’ s pre-eminent OTT video offering , iPlayer , with Head of Digital Partnerships Cyrus Saihan , plus dig into a rapidly approaching item on the 2018 to-do list of digital leaders everywhere – the roll out of GDPR in the EU . We hope you enjoy all that , plus a raft of other insights , in our final issue of Gigabit for 2017 . As ever , join the conversation in Gigabit ’ s Linkedin group , or follow us on Twitter and Facebook .

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