BT vs. Vodafone: UK has a new largest telco for the first time this century

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BT Group’s resurgence under Allison Kirkby has pushed its market cap beyond that of Vodafone for the first time in 25 years, but there are plenty of caveats to both operators’ performance, and the real winner could be Sunil Bharti Mittal…

This article includes:

  • Geographic: Africa; Bonn; Delhi; Europe; France; Germany; India; UK; United Kingdom
  • Organisations: Airtel; Altice; AT&T; Bharti Enterprises; Bharti Global; BT Business; BT Consumer; BT Group; China Mobile; Deutsche Bank; Deutsche Telekom; EE; Eutelsat; Investors Chronicle; KPN; OneWeb; Orange; Swisscom; T-Mobile US; Telefónica; Verizon; Vodafone Group; Vodafone Italy.
  • People: Adam Crozier; Allison Kirkby; Colin Bannon; Patrick Drahi; Philip Jansen; Sunil Bharti Mittal; Timotheus Höttges
  • Themes: Alternative network competition (altnet); Broadband infrastructure; Corporate governance; Dividend policy; Fibre broadband rollout; Financial performance; Full-fibre deployment; Investment strategy; Market capitalisation; Merger and acquisition (M&A); Network transformation; Openreach expansion; Operational efficiency; Revenue decline; Share price performance; Stakeholder confidence; Strategic partnerships; Telecommunications competition; UK infrastructure investment; Wholesale broadband market.

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