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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Chinese vendor Huawei is to set up a private 5G testbed in the Cambridge Science Park in the UK, working with Cambridge Wireless.
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The UK regulator has changed the way it plans to calculate costs for duct-sharing, following an intervention from Openreach and its owner.
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Covid-19 has pushed BT’s revenues down 8% to £10.59 million, according to its latest financial results.
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BT has called for a new plan for rural and remote connectivity in the UK after Ofcom launched an investigation into its compliance with universal service obligations (USOs).
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BT’s EE has expanded its 5G coverage to an additional 12 locations across the UK, taking the total number of connected towns and cities to 112.
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BT has completed sale of the Latin American part of what used to be BT Global Services.
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BT and Toshiba have deployed a 6km secure fibre network linking two research centres in the west of England.
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Finnish manufacturer Nokia has extended its longstanding partnership with BT to become the operator’s largest infrastructure and equipment provider.
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A former CFO of BT has had his honour removed, 10 years after he left the company and eight years after being convicted of insider trading.
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Italian operators have taken the first – and biggest – step to creating a single network delivering fibre to the home (FTTH), to be followed by a later merger to create a national wholesale-only fibre network.
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This episode features editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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The UK’s incumbent telco, BT Group, is preparing to defend against a reported £15 billion takeover bid.
