3pm blackout: Broadcasters open to talks over scrapping UK’s ban on showing live football on Saturday afternoon February 21, 2023 English football’s 3pm blackout could come under further pressure after broadcasters indicated a willingness to discuss scrapping the ban on televising live games on a Saturday afternoon. Executives in charge of TNT Sports, the new joint venture between BT Group and Warner Bros Discovery, say they will consider showing Saturday afternoon fixtures if league chiefs [...]
BT Sport to become TNT Sports: Here’s what it means for price, programming and existing customers February 21, 2023 BT Sport is to be rebranded as TNT Sports in the first major development of the joint venture between BT Group and Warner Bros Discovery. Under the rebrand, which will take place in July, programming will stay largely the same, with TNT Sports remaining centred around live Premier League and Champions League football, domestic and [...]
FTSE 100 close: Markets shrug off rate hike as JD Sports and BT lift index February 2, 2023 The FTSE 100 closed higher on Thursday, boosted by a strong performance from BT and JD Sports, as investors digested the latest interest rate decision from the Bank of England later today. Governor Andrew Bailey increased interest rates by 50bps to a post-financial crisis high of four per cent earlier today. Investors think the Bank [...]
FTSE 100 live: London index boosted by Shell ahead of today’s Bank of England rate decision February 2, 2023 The FTSE 100 opened higher on Thursday morning, boosted by a strong performance from Shell, as investors awaited the latest interest rate decision from the Bank of England later today. Governor Andrew Bailey is expected to increase interest rates by 50bps to a post-financial crisis high of four per cent later today, although there is [...]
Fibre advancing ‘like fury’ but will £5bn infrastructure spend turn round BT’s share price woes? February 2, 2023 BT reported a solid third quarter of the year in a statement to markets this morning, with boss Philip Jansen hailing a “transforming” firm. Revenue in the three quarters to the end of December crept up to £15.6bn, a small fall on last year which the firm put down to inflationary headwinds and legacy product [...]
Smartphones are the new laptops with 60 per cent of UK firms now mobile only – BT January 16, 2023 Almost 60 per cent of business owners now rely solely on using mobile phones to run their operations, telecoms giant BT has revealed. The investigation by BT business showed more than half of entrepreneurs have embraced flexible working, and use mobiles rather than laptops or desktops. According to BT 59 per cent of British business [...]
BT: Telecoms giant enters the drone market in £5m deal January 4, 2023 BT, Britain’s telecoms giant has entered the automated drone business. Earlier today, Etc., the incubation team in BT Group’s Digital unit announced that it was entering a £5m deal with Altitude Angel. Altitude Angel is a Reading based technology provider and the deal is supposed to scale up UK’s automated flying infrastructure. The two businesses [...]
Vodafone CEO frontrunner critical of telecoms sector January 2, 2023 Vodafone’s former non-executive director and ex-EE chief has publicly criticised the bureaucracy of European telecoms. Olaf Swantee, a Dutch businessman and key figure in the continent’s telecom sector has stated that the sector’s biggest companies are too complex and centralised. He stated that the sector needs to listen to customers. Swantee is rumoured to be [...]
BT to merge global and business units into one firm with earning potential of £8.5bn December 16, 2022 BT is combining two of its units into a single business which will have a revenue of about £8.5bn a year. The telecoms giant will merge its Global and Enterprise wings into a one organisation called BT Business, focusing on B2B relations. BT Enterprise has a market share of 30 per cent, providing firms and [...]
Rivals raise eyebrows over BT’s Openreach price cuts December 14, 2022 BT’s Openreach has said it plans to offer cheaper rates to its wholesale clients like Sky and TalkTalk as it tries to push Brits from copper to full fibre. The move will benefit big internet providers that do not have their own fibre networks, but has raised eyebrows amongst the firm’s biggest rivals. The main [...]