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Our ongoing modernisation continues at pace, delivering a further step-up in fibre build and take-up, customer satisfaction and EBITDA.

BT Group plc announces that Jon James has been appointed CEO of BT Business, as it becomes focused on the UK, and a member of its Executive Committee. He will start in his new role on 3 March 2025. Jon joins BT Group from the leading Danish …

As the UK’s ageing copper landline network becomes increasingly unstable, BT is urging Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move faster in transitioning from analogue to digital connectivity.The call comes as BT data reveals that 60% …

By Gabriela Styf Sjoman, MD Research and Network Strategy, BT

Our annual price change is never an easy conversation to have with customers. It is, however, an important part of how we cover our increasing costs and keep investing in our networks and services to do more for the people we serve.We're doing all …

BT Group has announced the first real-world deployment of 5G Standalone network slicing capabilities over the EE mobile network, launched to support faster and more resilient mobile payments at Belfast’s Christmas Market, which took place last …

By Howard Watson, Chief Security and Networks Officer, BT Group & Kerry Small, Chief Operating Officer, BT Business 

Around 3,500 new EV’s are being ordered to support the upgrade of the nation’s largest broadband and mobile networks.

Equinix expansion aims to enable organisations to accelerate digital transformation in Ireland

Today the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") handed down its judgment in the case of Justin Le Patourel v BT Group plc ("BT Group") in which the CAT has dismissed the claim and found that BT Group's conduct did not breach competition law. We take …

The UK has become a nation of split-screeners, secret streamers and event schemers according to new research commissioned by BT Group.

BT Group has deployed Sprinklr’s unified customer experience management platform to deliver AI-enhanced customer support 

BT Group has today announced it has signed a new £1.29bn contract with the Home Office to provide mobile services for the Government’s Emergency Services Network (ESN) over the next seven years. ESN is a national critical communications system …

Will Kirk, star of hit BBC show The Repair Shop, has joined forces with BT to encourage the UK’s much-loved heritage businesses to go digital – as new research shows two in three small firms (67%) say technology is keeping their traditions …

BT Group plc (“BT Group”) announces that Marc Allera has decided to step down as CEO of its Consumer division, with Claire Gillies to become CEO-Designate and a member of its Executive Committee on 10 December 2024, kicking-off an orderly transition …

Customers can combine networking and security into a single, cloud-delivered managed SASE service protecting access to digital servicesBT today announced an expansion of its managed secure SD-WAN solution for business and public sector customers in …

Partnership with Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team sees the mast fitted with an antenna and cabling to support search and rescue operations in the area

We have accelerated the modernisation of BT Group in the first half of the year.

BT expands its Carbon Network Dashboard to show how workloads and apps, including AI, impact carbon emissions from customers’ networks and data-centresBT today announced it has expanded its Carbon Network Dashboard to give business customers …

Located in rural Shropshire, 100% of site’s power requirements will be delivered by renewable energy sources, 70% of which generated by on-site solar and wind

Digital Voice is BT’s home phone service, powered by broadband, which includes an AI powered tool that monitors incoming calls and will notify the user of any suspected spam calls. 

By Chris Sims, Managing Director, Small and Medium Business at BT

BT in live testing of its new, AI-ready network-as-a-service (NaaS) platformGlobal Fabric points of presence (PoPs) now installed in over 45 of the world’s major cloud data-centresDemo of management portal allows customers to experiment with network …

BT Group (‘the Company’) has announced a number of changes to its Strategy and Change (S&C) and Digital teams this morning that will integrate our strategy and innovation teams and enable the acceleration of our digital transformation.Strategy …

The GenAI Gateway, a generative AI enablement platform, built in collaboration with AWS, enables BT Group to tap into the power of GenAI with safe, secure access to Large Language Models (LLMs) from a scalable number of foundation model providers

BT Group has today launched a new Apprenticeship Fund, designed to support SMEs, charities and public sector organisations across England by providing access to £4m in apprenticeship funding over an initial four-year period.Since 2017, companies …

Collaboration between BT Group, Toshiba and Equinix opens access to quantum-secure networks between data centresEquinix facilities in London’s Canary Wharf and Slough will be connected by a high bandwidth quantum-secure network to secure data …

New data shows BT logs 2,000 signals of potential cyber attacks a second; 200 million per day

By Howard Watson - Chief Security and Networks Officer, Marc Allera - CEO Consumer and Bas Burger - CEO Business

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