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M&A

Federal becomes latest unit to go in BT’s international retreat

The Group continues CEO Allison Kirkby’s business-to-business rationalisation push by offloading US government contracting subsidiary, but touts plans to retain a “strong presence” in the country.

Latest Analyst Briefing

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Analyst Briefing

BTwatch: going sovereign; leveraging AI

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Analyst Briefing: BT launches a sovereign option for UK enterprise customers; prepares for the way for intent-based networks with AWS; and partners industry to protect against the rising cybersecurity threat…

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Peoplewatch

BT Peoplewatch: Openreach sharpens commercial edge with altnet exec

December 2025 update: BT adds more industry nous to aid transformation from the Strategy & Change organisation; BT International’s senior leadership team undergoes further early tweaks; and Openreach brings in an altnet exec to ‘sharpen’ its commercial edge…

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Public Affairs

UK gov walks barrier-busting tightrope in bid to ease MDU connectivity headaches

Government sets so-called Barrier Busting Task Force to work, aiming to remove blockers to Gigabit upgrades at multi-dwelling units and apartment blocks. Openreach welcomes the proposals, but Whitehall must avoid giving the incumbent any inadvertent advantage…

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Peoplewatch

CityFibre hiring Neil McRae as CTIO — why?

In-depth: Former BT Chief Architect looks set to unexpectedly return to UK broadband. Is the largest fibre specialist looking to tap strategist’s deep understanding of incumbent and networks, or more recent experience in cloud and FWA?

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Network & Infra

BT seeks to bring self-healing network vision to life, with a little help from AWS

Mobile networks lead Reza Rahnama says earlier attempts to deploy AI in the network fell short, but programmable 5G SA, with AWS architecture, means intent-based networks will soon be a reality…

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