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Strategy & ChangeUK’s new Digital Strategy ‘lacks long-term vision’
TechUK claims new strategy would need to be updated in 2024 to ‘remain relevant’.
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PremiumBT people moves: Division X and Digital target startup growth
Division X names market development lead; Digital brings in startup partnership specialist.
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PeopleEx-O2 CEO Dunne takes M&S non-exec spot
Ronan Dunne named Non-Exec at UK retailer, adding to Verizon board role.
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PremiumVodafone UK keeps cards close to chest on M&A
VfUK CEO Ahmed Essam sees in-market mobile consolidation as “no silver bullet”.
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PremiumElsewhere in Openreach: UK fibre scene still growing
Altnet challengers continue march on UK fibre market; Plusnet hits switch on Openreach-backed FTTP.
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PremiumElsewhere in BT Technology: Plug and Play enters UK market
BT partner Plug and Play enters UK market in hunt for green innovators.
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OperationsOpenreach’s Selley slams ‘tortuous’ process for hiring EU workers
Openreach CEO warns of constraints on pace of fibre network build.
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Public AffairsPhones 4u claims telco “culture of impunity” as collusion trial begins
Phones 4u seeks to depict cavalier attitudes towards competition law among executives on the UK mobile scene as it attempts to prove operators colluded to cause its collapse.
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Strategy & ChangeDrahi returns to BT spotlight amid fresh takeover speculation
All eyes on French billionaire as six-month ban on BT takeover bid expires tomorrow.
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Strategy & ChangeOfcom reveals plan for commercial drone licences
Spectrum authorised for beyond line of sight flights. Broader drone regulatory framework in the works.
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Network & InfrastructureBangor University wins £4.2m state funding for rural 5G FWA rollout
Vodafone and local fibre infrastructure players Fiberspeed and ITS involved in 18-month project.
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PeopleOpenreach Scotland names Service Delivery lead
Jenni Macfarlane becomes business’ first female Service Delivery Director.
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InterviewRakuten Symphony turns up the volume in Europe
After setting up shop in France, Germany, and the UK, Symphony puts out welcome mat for software companies to join its Symworld marketplace.
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Innovation (R&D)BT could see limits to R&D Horizon
University group says UK could abandon association to Horizon Europe programme in June.
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PremiumLiberty refreshes catch-up TV features
In ‘super aggregator’ era, broadcast TV is “still very relevant”.
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Public AffairsDrahi’s BT stake raises national security concerns
UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng wields National Security & Investment Act to review, and potentially reverse, Altice UK’s latest BT stake acquisition.
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Public AffairsAction ballot date set as union “maximises” BT pressure
Communication Workers Union to post ballot papers on 15 June.
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Venturing & InvestmentsSees.ai flies high with Boeing backing
Vodafone partner picks up $100,000 funding from the aerospace giant.
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Network & InfrastructureBT’s Digital Voice switchover on track despite delays
CEO Jansen confident in operator’s ability to rectify problems in analogue-to-digital switchover.
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Network & InfrastructureBT makes steady progress on broadband USO
Latest update shows 4,600 premises connected, with thousands more in the works. Excessive costs remain a problem for rural premises despite Ofcom intervention.