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Analyst ReportsBTwatch Analyst Report #369 - October 2025
Key stories include: BT warned of altnet-led FMC challenge | Howard Watson prepares for exit | 2030 target set for 5G SA | Italian divestment completes | Copper-to-fibre pricing raises altnet hackles | and much more…
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Consumer (B2C)BT weighs budget mobile flip-flop as MVNO competition hots up — report
Rumours resurface of a B-brand mobile revival, just 18 months after BT pulled Plusnet out of the segment. While CEO Allison Kirkby’s return to multi-brand in consumer may well require a targeted discount marque to match rivals, also-mooted MVNO acquisition would be more surprising…
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Network & InfraSES pencils in early-2030s for enterprise quantum comms rollout
Capacity Europe 2025: Satco preparing “fully fledged constellation” for QKD services, with launch of EAGLE-1 satellite quickly approaching. However, SES’ Emin Allagui notes the industry must address capacity and security concerns to bring the technology to maturity…
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Innovation30 years down, 5+ to go before BT’s quantum vision comes to life
Capacity Europe 2025: Senior Research Manager Andrew Lord remains optimistic about quantum secure communications, but sought-after commercial use cases still five-to-ten years away. QKD a valid ‘stepping stone’, and satellite may boost momentum, but supply chain ‘fragility’ remains a stumbling block…
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InterviewINCA CEO: ‘job done’ when altnets join Openreach as industry ‘baddies’
INCA Summit 2025: With consolidation looming and the next Telecoms Access Review on the horizon, the UK’s fibre landscape is at a tipping point. Altnets, however, are still reeling from (pantomime) villain Openreach’s latest pricing initiative, with disappointment at Ofcom inertia, and suspicion the incumbent is testing what it can get away with…
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Partnerships & AlliancesTelco execs invest in industry fintech player Glow
Device financing partner of BT, and others, secures $65m to expand its international reach and build out its software platform for handset payments, insurance, and upgrades. Investors include several industry heavyweights such as John Malone, Niek Jan Van Damme, and Glenn Lurie.
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PeopleBT’s Watson to retire, McCall steps up
Greg McCall stepping up to lead networks and security into the age of data and AI, closing out safe-pair-of-hands Howard Watson’s decade of digitalisation, fibre, 5G and cloud modernisation.
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Network & InfraUK MNOs bag equal share of mmWave spectrum in £39m auction
BT, VodafoneThree, and Virgin Media O2 share the spoils in Ofcom’s delayed auction, each committing £13m for 26GHz and 40GHz spectrum, but not all MHz are equal…
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PeopleRetelit crowns infra unit leader after finalising BT Italia buy
Italian digital infra operator names Andrea Giovanni Bono as Managing Director of Retelit-X, a newly created subsidiary housing the assets it has acquired from BT Italia…
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Public AffairsClearing the Eir: Irish operators criticise ‘excessively lax’ access rules
Industry body ALTO, representing operators such as BT, Vodafone, Enet, and Sky, calls for review into regulation of incumbent.
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Financial & PerformanceBT drones investment Altitude Angel becomes latest Etc. venture to fall
Industry reacts as Altitude Angel appoints administrators, raises questions about airspace security, two years after BT’s £5m investment…
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Network & InfraOpenreach expands role as Project Gigabit contract sweeper-upper
Openreach picks up Project Gigabit premises previously allocated to UK altnet Voneus, seeing the incumbent add another lot of homes to its Call-Off collection…
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PeopleBT Peoplewatch: European rollback leads to regional leadership swaps
25+ senior and strategic changes at BT/Openreach, including senior swaps at BT Sourced; another series of brand and marketing appointments at Group-level; and new BT International regional leads following Retelit’s Italia acquisition…
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Public Affairs‘Enormously aggressive’: nexfibre leads altnet complaints against Openreach copper-to-fibre discounting
Connected Britain 2025: As Openreach pulls levers to combat massive broadband losses, and drive fibre adoption alongside, altnet leaders have called out the discount pricing strategy as unsustainable. nexfibre execs have called it an exploitation of the incumbent’s significant market powers, CityFibre warns of structure advantage, plus views from other altnets, rivals…
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Analyst ReportsBTwatch Analyst Report #368 - September - October 2025
Key stories include: Bharti joins the BT board | Kirkby rails against gov policy | AWS to aid network autonomy | BT slim-down reaches Radianz | Openreach ratchets up TAR lobbying | and much more…
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Network & InfraBT targets lead in UK’s 5G standalone coverage race
Operator unveils technology and coverage ambitions behind its 5G SA rollout, including headline target to hit 99% population coverage in 2030. Move positions BT to become first UK operator to reach this target, although rivals have updated on their own plans to accelerate rollout…
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PeopleKatherine Ainley exits Ericsson after five years as UK&I CEO
Ex-BT exec departs the vendor with claims of a job well done: UK business grows, major 5G deals signed.
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EventwatchIndustry maps next steps for UK’s One Touch Switch
Connected Britain 2025: TOTSCo to focus on two key areas over the next year to further improve and streamline OTS, with BT, Hyperoptic, and Grain Connect among those highlighting the system’s consequences and potential improvements…
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InnovationOpenreach taps VR startup for 3D fibre planning
Openreach adds another weapon to its fibre building arsenal through Glasgow startup, using VR mapping to accelerate the cable routing process.
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Public AffairsBT’s Kirkby pulls no punches in review of UK regulatory, fiscal policy
Connected Britain: Allison Kirkby lets loose on Downing Street policy, with greater fiscal certainty needed to fund much-needed infra investment and AI adoption. Regulatory policy comes in for inevitable criticism too, as the BT boss sets the scene for the Chancellor’s upcoming Budget and Ofcom’s pending Telecoms Access Review…