BT
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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.
Forthcoming events
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British Telecom has divested its global legal, accounting and professional services software business Tikit, which it acquired for more than £64 million in 2012.
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BT has had the worst performing share price of all major telcos since the beginning of 2020, though Veon, Altice Europe and Saudi Telecom (STC) are not far behind.
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Leading members of the industry will decide by Friday whether or not to cancel this year’s Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, according to reports from the city.
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Capacity rounds up 5 of the latest financial results from across the telco sector.
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The UK government has warned people in Britain that the EU’s law on free mobile roaming will cease to apply at the end of 2020.
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BT has warned that It will cost £500 million to remove Huawei equipment from parts of its network under the government’s decision to limit the vendor’s role in the UK’s 5G plans.
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BT has been named as the first European distribution partner of Stadia, Google’s new cloud gaming platform.
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Cellnex Telecom has signed an agreement with Altice Europe and Belmont Infra Holding to acquire all of OMTEL’s towers and sites in Portugal for €800 million.
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BT has accelerated the transformation of its global unit with the sale of its Spanish managed ICT services business, which includes its domestic network infrastructure.
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The UK’s Nextgenaccess has agreed an exclusive 20-year concession for the deployment of full fibre infrastructure along the High Speed 1 (HS1) railway link.
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Gavin Patterson, who was ousted as CEO of BT last year, is to be chairman of Salesforce’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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Future 5G networks could be integrated with private Wifi networks, following work by two major wireless organisations.
