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Strategy & ChangeElsewhere in BT Technology: Open Digital Architecture gets tested
BT backing digital architecture commoditisation; data traffic records tumble.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Group: Cisco takes IMImobile
Partners Cisco and IMImobile to meld customer comms solutions.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Openreach: job creation takes off
European fibre surge anticipated; Openreach partner folds.
- Enterprise (B2B)
Elsewhere in BT Enterprise: NTT renews wholesale deal
Transatel set to enable more EE features for UK MVNOs; Wholesale claims 5G rollout lead.
- Consumer (B2C)
Elsewhere in BT Consumer: Premiership Rugby not guaranteed
Rugby talks go to wire; BT Sport welcomes fans back, EE clearing not‑spots.
- Enterprise (B2B)
Elsewhere in BT Enterprise: full fibre rollout takes on public sector sites
IDNet migrating analogue voice to Hosted Communications; Smart Messaging adds Google RBM.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Group: Bristol named a new BT home
New Bristol office for 2,000 by 2022; Centrical-SAP training platform for 150,000; 99.9% of electricity now renewable internationally.
- Network & Infrastructure
Elsewhere in Openreach: FTTP rollout quickens
Fibrus gets one over Openreach in Northern Ireland; FTTP rollout quickens pace; Openreach engineer hospitalised after attack in April 2020.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Technology: EE joins in on 4G small-cell standards
EE joins peers to lay out 4G small‑cell standards; BT flags potential commercial trials of Infinera XR Optics.
- Consumer (B2C)
Elsewhere in BT Consumer: Northern Irish retail gets a boost
BT builds out high street presence in NI; EE dawdles in Ofcom’s automatic compensation scheme.
- Enterprise (B2B)
Elsewhere in BT Enterprise: Qualcomm gets 5G praise
Qualcomm 5G access role praised, Wholesale gets Gigabit‑ready.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Openreach: engineers honoured, Welsh targets in sight
Engineers honoured with MBEs; fibre expansions trumpeted in Scotland and Wales; and PSTN switch‑off trudges on.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Technology: open source on the wishlist
Calls for greater open source collaboration, BT breaking technology silos with ‘speed-dating’, persistent Emotet threat flagged.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Group: Swantee eyes wholesale customers
Swantee eyes BT wholesale customers, Pourrat urges EV grants, Group supports new employee saving scheme.
- Consumer (B2C)
Elsewhere in BT Consumer: BT TV loses Disney, BT Sport battles lockdown
BT Sport offers helping hand to closed Scottish pubs; Disney’s strategy shift makes impact for BT TV customers; Allera says Apple’s entrance to the 5G device market has huge potential.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in Openreach: innovation in the crosshairs
Openreach targets innovation, Vodafone launches gigabit services, superfast stymied by capacity gap.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Global: McAfee flags BT role
Financial services business grows, US military renews contracts, McAfee flags BT role.
- Consumer (B2C)
Elsewhere in BT Consumer: Carphone exited, finally
Carphone dumped, BT Mobile abandons premium services, BT Sport adds OTT interoperability
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Technology: Watson calls for sustainability fix
BT’s Watson makes a call‑to-action over wireless industry’s energy usage, saying power-hungry mobile networks need a sustainability “fix”.
- Strategy & Change
Elsewhere in BT Group: SEC exit nears
BT backing off office space rental plans, SEC exit nears, rival TalkTalk set to de‑list.
