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Peoplewatch

BT Chair Adam Crozier scores side hustle at Experian

BT Chair has taken on a parallel FTSE 100 boardroom leadership seat, at financial data group Experian — but telco assures its boss will remain in post for some time yet.

Latest Analyst Briefing

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Analyst Briefing

BTwatch: turning to AI for legacy migrations, future autonomy

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Analyst Briefing: BT’s embrace of AI stretches to network autonomy and engineer scheduling; EE adds a Starlink tie-up to improve ESN emergency comms; and the Group finalises the Scottish WAN migration project…

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Peoplewatch

EMEA telco veteran Rob Shuter bolsters KKR’s digital infra squad

KKR has added heavyweight telco leader Rob Shuter to its advisory panel, tapping his ‘rare’ blend of fibre and telecoms expertise as the firm looks to scale its digital infra stable.

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Network & Infra

Openreach hoovers up more Project Gigabit deals after altnets pull out

Openreach picks up subsidised build after Freedom Fibre and FullFibre withdraw. Move comes as altnets continue to pull out of Project Gigabit arrangements amidst financial constraints…

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Operations

Openreach onboards AI agents in bid to cut missed appointments

Customer service lead Chris Herbert talks up ‘unified, proactive, AI-powered’ customer engagement strategy, underpinned by NiCE agents.

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Network & Infra

BT adopts NVIDIA’s telco LLM in pursuit of autonomous, intent-based networks

NVIDIA’s large telco model is playing a ‘significant’ role in BT’s journey to network autonomy, providing a data sandbox in which the Group can conduct AI R&D. Data & AI lead Séainín McCoy considers the use of synthetic data to be paramount for maximisation of RoI and mitigation of risk…

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