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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Vodafone is taking legal action against Ofcom, the UK regulator, over its decision to allow Openreach to charge more for leased lines.
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A US law firm is to file a new class-action complaint against BT tomorrow, naming past senior directors in the scandal at BT Italia, which caused the group to write off £530 million.
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Openreach, the UK’s wholesale last-mile company, says it will extend all-fibre broadband to 36 new locations, with work due to start over the next 12 months.
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BT has selected Canonical, a publisher of public cloud operating system Ubuntu, to assist in its next generation 5G core by using Charmed OpenStack, an open source virtual infrastructure manager.
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Shareholders in KCOM, the UK city of Hull’s independent telecoms company, meet this Friday to approve a £627 million takeover bid from Australian investor Macquarie.
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Five telecoms companies – BT, Singtel, Telefónica, Telia and Vodafone – are among 28 companies that have committed to new international climate targets.
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At the TalkTalk Business Connectivity Matter Summit, Laurence Doe caught up with Ruth Kennedy (pictured), director of carrier & systems integrator, to discuss industry challenges and what plans are afoot to maintain a competitive edge.
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The UK regulator has given Openreach, the BT subsidiary that runs last-mile copper and fibre in the UK, a “good but try harder” assessment.
