BT has reported that the Women’s World Cup has driven spikes of up to 16 per cent in BT’s broadband data traffic as people streamed the Lionesses’ on-pitch heroics live – highlighting the rising popularity of the women’s game. The August 20th final against Spain saw the biggest surge of all the games, with 866TB […]
BT has secured a seven-year deal with NATS, the UK provider of air navigation services. NATS handles over 2.5 million flights every year and the new long-term contract will enhance its technology infrastructure by creating a future-fit strategic network architecture to support air traffic operations in the UK. BT will take responsibility for the consolidation […]
BT and Ericsson have successfully demonstrated the transmission of 5G services in a wideband FDD (frequency division duplex) radio carrier (over 20MHz) within a sub-3 GHz spectrum band. The breakthrough trial demonstrated the benefits of configuring a wide carrier bandwidth of 50MHz (50MHz downlink + 50MHz uplink) in EE’s 2.6GHz band and performing downlink aggregation […]
BT Group has appointed Allison Kirkby as its next Chief Executive, taking over from Philip Jansen in January 2024. Kirkby has been a non-exec director of BT since 2019. Kirkby has served as President & CEO of Telia Company since early 2020. Telia, headquartered in Sweden, is the market leading digital communications and telecommunications provider […]
BT has a new CEO in Allison Kirkby, though she is not new to the company having served as a NED since 2019, the same time Philip Jansen became CEO. BT is the definition of a lacklustre stock. This despite being in a major growth area and holding a huge market share. It is, to […]
UK telco BT has issued a trading update for the three months to June 30th 2023, with Philip Jansen, Chief Executive, commenting: “We’ve made a strong start to the year, in what remains a very competitive market, with improved customer satisfaction, pro forma revenue growth in all of our business units and pro forma group […]
UK telecoms and broadcast regulator Ofcom has published the latest figures for complaints received about the UK’s main landline, mobile, broadband and pay-TV providers. This latest quarterly report covers the period from January to March 2023. During this period, complaints to Ofcom increased slightly on the previous quarter (October to December 2022), with slight increases […]
Patrick Drahi’s Altice is considering an increase to his stake in BT, according to MSN. Already the biggest holder, Altice has built a 24.5 per cent stake in three tranches, most recently in May this year. Reporting says he is likely to target 29.9 per cent, above this he will be obliged to trigger a […]
UK telco BT and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite company OneWeb, in partnership with the UK government, are now delivering high-speed, low-latency Internet connectivity to Lundy Island, North Devon, providing it with reliable connectivity for the first time. Sitting 19 kilometres off the coast of North Devon, Lundy is the first real-world example of how BT […]
The UK’s largest connectivity providers are committing to agreeing to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the telecoms supply chain. At a roundtable meeting in May convened by Ofcom and Accenture, twelve telecoms and network infrastructure companies were invited to discuss and identify priority areas where they could work together to reduce […]