Telefonica is doing a good job of reusing and refurbishing smartphones and Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and other operators should take heed of this essential element of sustainability. The Spanish group has said that it has repurposed more than 19 million routers and set-top boxes across its operations in the last five years. In 2023, the company collected 88% of all CPE and has a target of collecting 90% by 2024. Telefonica said that its electronic equipment operations involve more than 100 companies on three continents. The complexity of the process led the firm to design a platform, called Vicky, that uses a blockchain system to monitor and trace the products across the value chain. Vicky significantly improves recovery rates,…