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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 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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Bharti Global will become BT’s biggest shareholder after buying a 25% stake, worth US$4 billion from Altice.
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BT and its mobile arm EE have unveiled two new initiatives to reduce the impact of fraud on its mobile customers.
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BT, NSSLGlobal and Viasat UK have formed an alliance to deliver defence satellite communications (Satcomms) services, and support modernisation of the UK's defence and space sectors.
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BT has partnered with the UK’s Department for Education to open up millions of BT Wi-fi hotspots for those can’t easily afford to access the internet.
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BT’s wholesale-only last-mile subsidiary Openreach says it has extended its fibre service to all 20,000 premises in the city of Salisbury in a 12-month building project.
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The not-for-profit industry body i3forum has added its sixth member organisation in six months, with BT now officially on the roll call.
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Openreach is to use Nokia’s GPON and XGS-PON fibre access technologies to deploy a next generation network it says has the potential to provide a £59 billion boost to UK productivity by 2025.
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Australian investor Macquarie and an unnamed sovereign wealth fund are talking to BT about taking an investment in Openreach, its last-mile fibre and copper company.
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Epsilon has appointed Craig Forrester (pictured) as its new chief financial officer, effective immediately.
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Liberty Global and Telefónica are in talks to merge its UK companies, Virgin Media and O2.
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Independent fibre company Nextgenaccess is using wholesale access to BT’s ducts to connect a hyperscale data centre in south Wales.
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BT has decided to source its 5G core network from Ericsson, the companies announced today.
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Operator wants to acquire rival telcos across Europe, according to CEO Tim Höttges.
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UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched Stay Connected, a nationwide campaign advising the public on ways reduce pressure on networks during the coronavirus lockdown.
