BT wins £70m IT contract with South West police forces
Today, BT has announced it has won a $70 million contract to upgrade and support the IT infrastructure of the Devon & Cornwall and Dorset police forces.
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BT begins EV charging pilot scheme
BT Group’s startup incubation arm, Etc., has upcycled a now obsolete BT street cabinet in East Lothian, Scotland, into an electric vehicle (EV) charging point.
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Macquarie deliberates sale of KCOM
Australian investment banking firm Macquarie, owner of Hull-based operator KCOM, is considering putting the company up for sale, according to a report from The Telegraph.
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BT calls on McKinsey to head up new strategy unit
BT has appointed McKinsey executive Tom Meakin to interim ‘Chief Strategy and Change Officer’, the Financial Times has reported.
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UK SMBs could save 280m tonnes of CO2e by hitting 2030 targets
Press Release 22 April 2024: This Earth Day, BT is announcing a new partnership with the UK...
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BT to represent telecoms industry’s interests on new Critical Imports Council
Today, the UK government has announced the first meeting of the newly formed Critical Imports Council, a group formed to ‘help safeguard flows of vital goods such as medicines and smartphone chips’.
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Allison Kirkby kickstarts BT tenure with Irish unit sale
BT may sell its Irish unit after shelving the proposal in 2020, according to a new Sky News report. Anonymous sources, the UK incumbent is working with Citi Bank to discuss the unit’s potential sale.
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BT and EE changes pricing policy to show “pounds and pence”
British mobile network operator EE, along with its parent company and internet service provider BT, has announced that it has become the first major operator to simplify its pricing structure.
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Openreach leans on Labour party to remove broadband roadblocks for MDUs
According to a report from the Financial Times, the UK’s largest broadband provider Openreach has held talks with the Labour party asking them to commit to legislation that would make it easier to deploy fibre broadband infrastructure in blocks of flats and other MDUs.
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BT pledges to upgrade payphones nationwide
BT and Global, the Media & Entertainment Group, have announced a 10-year partnership to upgrade the UK’s legacy payphones and expanding digital hubs in local communities across the UK.
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Major UK operators vow to protect vulnerable customers ahead of landline switch
Seven major network operators, including Openreach, CityFibre, and Sky, have agreed on new rules to protect people who rely on personal alarms as UK landlines are upgraded to a new digital network.
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BT wins £26m contract to connect UK schools
British incumbent BT has secured £26 million of government funding to provide hundreds of primary schools with gigabit broadband, as part of the UK government’s ‘Project Gigabit’ scheme.
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BT launches new NB-IoT network in smart cities push
This week, BT has announced the launch of its new Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network to aid its development of UK smart cities. The rollout will allow for widescale efficiency and cost-savings in a variety of industries.
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BT’s taps AWS’s GenAI coding companion to support software engineers
Today, BT’s Digital Unit has announced that it will us Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s GenAI coding companion Amazon CodeWhisperer to help their software engineers code effectively.
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BT faces court battle over £1.3bn overcharging claim
BT is set to appear in court today to face a class action lawsuit that claims the operator had has “disproportionately overcharged” its historic landline customers. The case begins today at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London.
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BT clears up pricing policy after Ofcom crackdown
Following a recent Ofcom crackdown on broadband advertising and mid-contract price hikes, BT have confirmed that they will be adopting a simpler approach to their pricing models, starting from this summer. “Starting in early summer, we will introduce a pricing model consistent with Ofcom’s approach, moving away from % figures and CPI, and offering instead, a clear and simple view of any changes in “pounds and pence,” read the press release.
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BT in talks with Starlink to connect hard-to-reach enterprises
This week, reports suggest that BT has entered into discussions with SpaceX over using its growing LEO satellite constellation Starlink to provide connectivity to rural areas of the UK
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BT signs connectivity deal with Iraqi gas firm
BT has this week signed an agreement with BGC to securely connect company operations in Iraq, helping to accelerate the company’s digital transformation. BGC was established in 2013 as a as a 25-year incorporated joint venture between the Iraqi government (who own a 51% share), Shell (44%), and Mitsubishi (5%).
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BT begins converting street cabinets into EV charging stations
BT has announced today that it has begun a pilot project to repurpose the old street cabinets, traditionally used for broadband and phone cabling, into electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.
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Are “lazy” broadband engineers to blame for UK cyber-attacks?
A report from the Telegraph suggests that UK hospitals and banks are more likely to be exposed to cyber-attacks because of “lazy” broadband engineers failing to complete paperwork. According to the article, the engineers are failing to disclose “when and where they are working on BT’s network”, leaving BT’s client companies unable to see who is accessing their critical network infrastructure.
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