BT Group
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BT has reportedly put its global division up for sale as part of the company’s ongoing attempts to shave costs -
BT has expanded its Carbon Network Dashboard, enhancing business customers' visibility into electricity consumption and carbon emissions for more effective infrastructure optimisation.
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BT Group has activated its first self-powering mobile site in the Shropshire Hills, with approximately 70% of the site’s energy requirements met by on-site solar panels and a wind turbine.
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BT Group has undergone a leadership reshuffle with Harmeen Mehta, the company’s chief digital and innovation officer, departing.
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BT Group is leveraging large language models from AI vendors like Claude developers Anthropic, Meta, and Amazon through a specially designed internal platform to enhance operations and drive innovation.
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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has raised his BT stake to 4.3% for around £150 million.
Forthcoming events
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A pension fund is set to take over KCOM, the UK city of Hull’s independent telecoms company.
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BT’s senior executives in the UK knew about efforts to inflate the performance of the company’s Italian business, the Reuters news agency is reporting.
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BT’s Openreach last-mile subsidiary says it doesn’t want to re-install copper connections to premises once it’s installed fibre.
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Three of the UK’s four mobile operators showed their disdain for efforts to ban Huawei today by conducting the first video call across 5G radio networks.
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Allison Kirkby, the CEO of Danish operator TDC, is to join the BT board as a non-executive director.
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UK mobile operators hope to keep current roaming deals in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit – despite the UK government’s admission that it will revoke EU roaming regulations will be axed should it fail to strike a deal with the political block.
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BT’s new CEO, Philip Jansen, takes over the CEO role on Friday, at the end of what could be a defining week for the troubled company.
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BT has become one of the first international telecoms companies to be granted a domestic telecoms licence for nationwide services in China.
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Telecom Italia – now known as TIM – has offered to buy BT’s scandal-hit Italian operation, Capacity understands.
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Bas Burger, the sixth CEO of BT Global Services in 15 years, wants to shift the division to growth sectors and to park traditional areas such as voice in the legacy category. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wanzhou, or Sabrina Meng, is under arrest in Canada and facing extradition to the US following an investigation into alleged breaking of Iran sanctions.
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BT is set to ditch Huawei equipment from its core 4G network and prevent the mobile vendor from bidding for contracts for future 5G core infrastructure contracts, according to several reports.
