BTwatch: pulling back stateside to sharpen B2B focus

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Analyst Briefing: the Group’s overseas B2B rethink claims another victim as BT Federal gets sold off; a wave of senior leadership shifts to close out 2025; and BT reflects on MPN successes, looks forward to quantum’s move from theory to reality, and tees up XGS-PON testing for next-gen networks…

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  • Themes: Asset divestment; Broadband; Fibre deployment; International Year of Quantum; Mobile private networks (MPN); Network outages; Quantum infrastructure; Smart ports; Transformation strategy; Wi‑Fi 7; XGS‑PON.
  • Events: Belfast Harbour smart port initiative; Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games; June 2025 outages; Openreach XGS‑PON trials; Port of Ipswich smart port initiative; Port of Southampton smart port initiative; Port of Tyne MPN deployment; Wi‑Fi 7 launch.
  • People: Allison Kirkby; Brian Jackson; James Lowther; Jocelynn Thompson; Liz Kendall; Luciano Oliveira; Gabriela Styf Sjöman; Thomas Meakin.
  • Geographic: Belfast; Glasgow; Port of Ipswich; Port of Southampton; Port of Tyne; UK; USA.
  • Organisations: Advertising Standards Agency (ASA); BBC; BT; BT Federal; BT Group; EE; Ericsson; HBO Max; Ofcom; Openreach; Three; Truespeed; TNT Sports; UK government; Virgin Media O2; Vodafone; Women in Tech Taskforce; 22nd Century Technologies (TSCTI).

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