Bharti Airtel looks to raise stake in BT - report
The Indian telco is exploring whether it can increase its existing 24.5 percent stake
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BT increases cost savings target by £700m as cuts look set to continue
The telco giant has delivered cost savings of £1.5bn over last two years
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BT revives talks over international unit - report
Could involve a deal with another mobile carrier
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Cisco alum joins Finchetto to drive optical switching for AI
Former Cisco VP and Saisei Networks founder backs British startup’s bid to shake up the switch market
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Openreach names Katie Milligan as new CEO
While Clive Selley, the current CEO, will head up the company's international unit
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Hyperscale and cloud surpasses telco workforce counts for the first time, as layoffs mount
Widespread job cuts across telecoms industry hit workforce
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BT becomes more British with US Federal services sell-off
22nd Century Technologies acquires 20th century-founded unit
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Ofcom launches probe into BT, Three summer outages
The outages impacted the ability for some to contact the emergency services
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Howard Watson to step down from BT chief security and network role, Greg McCall to take over
Watson will remain at BT until March, McCall to take over the role from January 1, 2026
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Bharti founder Mittal and Airtel chairman Vittal secure seats on BT Group's board
The Indian telco has a 24.5 percent stake in BT
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UK's Openreach trials "panic alarms" amid spike in assault against engineers - report
Reported incidents of abuse directed at Openreach engineers was up 40 percent last year
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Telco Q1 2026 results: BT continues fiber push as Vodafone fights back in Germany
BT passes more than 19 million premises with fiber build
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Openreach telephone exchange and former HQ in London to become hotel
Exchange to remain in place, office portions vacated last year
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BT hiring for solution architect specialist to support Edge push
The successful applicant will join the broadband team
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BT chief says AI advancements could lead to more jobs cuts
Telco already expects to cut 55,000 jobs by the end of decade
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BT explores acquisition of struggling TalkTalk - report
TalkTalk has lost 400,000 customers so far this year
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BT pushes on with fiber rollout, raises build target to 5 million premises for FY26
The company is on course for its 25 million target
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BT to create standalone international unit - report
Will put its main focus into the UK market
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BT appoints Deutsche Telekom's Peter Leukert as chief digital officer
Leukert will join BT in September and oversee the telco's digital transformation
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Retelit to acquire BT Italy's operations
The deal will boost Retelit's fiber network and data center infrastructure
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BT approaches AT&T and Orange over international unit - report
Could involve a stake sale
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Sunil Mittal mulls decision to increase BT stake
Mittal already owns 24.5 percent in the company
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BT adds 1 million fiber builds during last quarter
Elsewhere, Vodafone Germany struggles again
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Equinix to acquire BT Group's Irish data center business
The transaction is expected to be completed in H1 2025
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BT wins £1.3bn class action lawsuit that alleged it overcharged millions of customers
But an appeal may still come
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UK gov't clears Bharti's acquisition of 24.5% BT stake
A BT investor filing last month confirmed Bharti was poised to snap up the stake
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Marc Allera to step down as CEO of BT's consumer division
Allera had been expected to land BT's top job last year
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Bharti completes acquisition of 24.5 percent stake in BT
Altice sells its stake in BT to ease its own debts