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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UK's Openreach delays closure of next two telephone exchanges by 12 months
Two out of three pilot closures delayed
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Nscale partners with BT for more UK data centers
AI cloud firm targets 14MW across three BT sites
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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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BT signs £200m connectivity contract with Northern Ireland Electricity Networks
BT will also provide cybersecurity and IT services to NIE Networks
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Subsea cable linking Orkney Islands breaks
Services disrupted for hundreds of residents, no timelines on fix
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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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Fire at Scottish telephone exchange, UK
Strathaven site reportedly suffers “significant damage”
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Concerns grow over planned Chinese embassy in London, with close proximity to extensive fiber optic network
Despite the government's comments that plans won't hurt national security
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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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Openreach delays closing two UK telephone exchanges
Two of three pilot closures delayed
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BT considers launch of low cost mobile brand in UK - report
Some of BT's rivals have seen success with this model
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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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EE targets 99% 5G Standalone coverage across UK by end of FY2030
Says it will be four years ahead of rivals
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Openreach tells customers to remove lithium batteries from UK telephone exchanges
BT's infra arm gives partners just two days to remove 'significant fire risk'
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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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DCD Magazine out now: The UK's copper switch-off
How BT and Openreach are approaching the end of copper
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BT signs new five-year agreement with AWS
Expands on telco's ongoing cloud migration efforts
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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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EE, BT UK network still down for some following outage
The company said it fixed the issue yesterday
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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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Openreach commits to remove 100 tonnes of plastic from supply chain
Plans to do this through the launch of new Optical Network Terminals (ONTs)
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BT creates 5G slices for SailGP event in Portsmouth, UK
Worked with Ericsson and Nokia to deploy the network slices
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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