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Network & Infra

BT taps Ericsson for programmable networks ‘building blocks’

MWC26: networks chief Greg McCall touts expanded Ericsson engagement as laying the foundations for dynamic, programmable, application-aware networks, with network slicing and APIs for real-world use-cases.

Latest Analyst Briefing

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Analyst Briefing

BTwatch: slicing 5G, steering 6G

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Analyst Briefing: BT gets to work on 5G network slicing with Ericsson in a bid to leverage the network for B2B customers; while ‘committing’ with Nokia, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm to help shape early 6G thinking…

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Network & Infra

BT gets in on 6G action with vendor triumvirate

MWC26: Group adds its logo to Nokia, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm 6G initiatives as BT’s tentative, sometimes dismissive view of 6G begins to give way…

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Products & Services

BT Business launches UK sovereign voice with Cisco

BT adds to 35-year Cisco collab as it adds its first product to nascent UK sovereign platform.

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M&A

UK’s nexfibre goes big, gets Substantial

Deep dive: nexfibre’s planned takeover of Substantial Group, parent of infra rival Netomnia, is the UK’s first billion pound-plus fibre altnet transaction and may open the floodgates to long-anticipated consolidation in the fragmented, scale-hungry sector. Chief Executive Rajiv Datta speaks to TelcoTitans about how the deal boosts its challenge to incumbent Openreach on wholesale fibre.

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Peoplewatch

Openreach ‘joins up’ engineering in latest exec shake-up

Access provider sets up Service Operations team to house all engineering capabilities, bringing rural and run-of-the-mill fibre build, copper maintenance, and civil engineering under one roof. New CX team also launched to improve CP relations…

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