BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby is considering a sale of the company's Irish business.

Sky News reports that the telco is restarting plans to sell the unit, four years after her predecessor, Philip Jansen, scrapped a deal. According to Sky, BT is working with bankers at Citi over a potential sale.

BT Ireland is the country's main alternative fixed-line communications provider and has more than 650 employees.

The unit doesn't serve consumers but does sell to business and wholesale customers. It has a fixed telecom network and boasts a high-capacity fiber network with nationwide reach across Ireland.

Founded in 1990, the company was originally called Esat Telecom, said to be an abbreviation of "Éireann Satellite." BT Ireland sold off its consumer unit to Vodafone in 2009.

BT previously agreed to a deal to sell the unit in 2019, before talks broke down a year later.

At the time, it was reported that a sale could generate between €300 million ($319m) and €400m ($425m). It's not known how much the unit is currently worth, or how much BT would be looking to sell for.

Kirkby joined BT at the start of February from Swedish telco Telia Company.