BTwatch Briefing: state-backed infra advances with varying success
Joe Purnell2025-07-02T07:10:00
Latest developments from BT, including: varying pace of public-backed projects ESN, Project Gigabit, R100, and SRN; buying chief Cyril Pourrat on AI momentum; RCS innovation with Brand Assure; Middle Eastern DHL deal; more…
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- Organisations: Arkan Solutions; Building Digital UK (BDUK); Brand Assure; BT Business; BT Group; BT Sourced; CityFibre; Digital Realty; DHL Express; EE; Eir; Freedom Fibre; Genesys; Google; IBM; INCA; MAPP; Ofcom; Openreach; Proptivity; Virgin Media O2; VodafoneThree.
- Geographic: Egypt; England; Europe; Ireland; Jordan; Kuwait; Northern Ireland; Qatar; Scotland; United Kingdom.
- People: Cyril Pourrat; David Salam; Kevin Britt; Leo Bartle; Paddy Paddison; Robert Thorburn; Sultan Mahmud.
- Themes: 5G; Agent validation; AI adoption; Altnet funding; Analogue network migration; Broadband; Customer experience; Fibre deployment; Funding challenges; Gigabit broadband; Government subsidy; Indoor coverage; Infrastructure investment; Investment confidence; Legacy network switch-off; Messaging services; Network resiliency; Neutral host; Power resiliency; Procurement innovation; Public switched telephone network (PSTN); RCS Business Messaging (RBM); Resilient infrastructure; Rural connectivity; Satellite backhaul; Spectrum allocation; Spectrum; Strategic rethink.