BT powers ahead as UK tech services offer rare growth signal July 11, 2025 BT Group has become one of the standout performers of the FTSE 100 this year, with its share price climbing over 34 per cent since January, and hitting a near five-year high. The telecoms and broadband giant is being closely watched as it ramps up fibre roll-out, explores strategic moves around its Openreach infrastructure arm, [...]
BT ups dividend as firm refocuses on the UK May 22, 2025 BT has upped its dividend to shareholders as the telecoms giant reported a rise in profits. The FTSE 100 company has declared a final dividend of 5.76p per share, bringing its full-year dividend to 8.16p, an increase of two per cent on the previous year. The firm’s policy is to at least maintain or increase [...]
TNT Sports loses almost £190m since BT Sport rebrand April 25, 2025 TNT Sports, the broadcasting giant co-owned by BT and Warner Bros Discovery, lost almost £190m during its latest financial year, it has been revealed. The business, which rebranded from BT Sport in 2023, has posted a pre-tax loss of £187.5m for the 12 months to 31 July, 2024, new accounts filed with Companies House show. [...]
Indian billionaire mulls expanding BT stake March 18, 2025 Indian telecoms billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal is reportedly considering boosting his stake in BT, according to a report in the Financial Times. Mittal already holds a 24.5 per cent stake in BT, which he bought from Luxembourg-based telecoms giant Altice – previously owned by Patrick Drahi. The expanded stake would continue to be held through [...]
BT successfully fights off £1.3bn ‘overcharging’ class action December 19, 2024 Telecoms giant BT has successfully defended a £1.3bn class action over allegations it “disproportionately overcharged” its landline customers
BT: Challenging conditions hit revenue at FTSE 100 giant November 7, 2024 BT shares traded lower by as much as 3.9 per cent in early deals this morning after the company downgraded its growth outlook for the year. The company reported a slight decline in revenue for the half-year ended 30 September 2024 due to what it has called challenging conditions in its business arm and more [...]
How BT, EE, Plusnet, Talktalk, O2 and Virgin Media misled customers over mid-contract price rises October 9, 2024 Six of the UK’s biggest broadband providers, BT, EE, Plusnet, Talktalk, O2 and Virgin Media, failed to make mid-contract price increases clear to consumers, the advertising watchdog has ruled. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the companies misled consumers by placing important information about price rises separately to headline prices and in areas of less [...]
Plusnet price rises boost profit after John Lewis closure October 1, 2024 Profit has risen at Plusnet despite a slump in customer numbers following the closure of its mobile division and John Lewis axing its broadband platform. The Sheffield-headquartered broadband provider, which is owned by BT, suffered a 29 per cent reduction in its customer base following the closures. However, annual contractual price rises partially offset the [...]
BT adds EDF UK chair and former top civil servant to its board September 16, 2024 BT has appointed the chairman of EDF UK, who was previously one of the UK’s top civil servants, to its. board. Sir Alex Chisholm has taken up the role of a non-executive director at the telecoms giant. In a statement issued to the London Stock Exchange, BT said the appointment would allow it to capitalise [...]
‘It can be spaghetti out there’: can Cityfibre take on BT? August 22, 2024 The UK’s altnet industry is a tangled mess of “spaghetti” – at least, that’s how the boss of Cityfibre put it earlier this year. Altnets, or alternative networks, such as Cityfibre, Gigaclear and Community Fibre, have emerged as competitors to the UK’s broadband giants Virgin Media O2 and Openreach. Despite their smaller scale, they have [...]