All United Kingdom (UK) articles – Page 3
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Network & InfraBoldyn says London Tube mobile rollout ‘on track’ in latest progress update
Neutral host says London Underground coverage programme to complete by end of 2026, within current timeframes but two years later than initially planned.
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica sees early gains in Transform & Grow revival plan
Q1 FY26: Execs at trimmed-down and re-focused Telefónica claim already to be seeing positive results from its new, five-year strategic plan, announced late last year. Operational changes and exits from volatile markets have made the Group smaller, but also given management a more solid and predictable platform for growth, execs argue.
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Network & InfraBT joins exclusive telco cohort in Anthropic’s frontier AI security project
Telco is the first UK business to confirm Project Glasswing participation, and the first European telco on the list, gaining early access to a frontier AI model aimed at pre-empting next-gen cyber threats.
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Strategy & ChangeCapita: rewired for agentic AI, and inviting telcos onboard
Interview: With hyperscaler alumni now at the helm and Snowflake Intelligence embedded in its AI Catalyst Stack, Capita is betting that agentic will redraw the economics of the contact centre. Chief AI & Product Officer Sameer Vuyyuru explains why telcos should be watching closely.
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Financial & PerformanceBT boss ‘having fun’ amid transformation challenge, industry noise, global turbulence
FY25–26: CEO Allison Kirkby relishing challenge two years in, claiming progress in place and runway for more through further cost-cutting, a B2B reset, and Consumer momentum leveraging Openreach strengths. Conversion still lacking, but management not short of optimism…
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B2BBT Wholesale gets ‘proactive’ in pursuit of travel eSIM opportunity
MVNOs World: BT Wholesale leans into MVNO-esque partnerships with travel providers amid warnings that roaming resale ‘back door’ is closing. “Our front door is open”, says MVNO Director Nick Wootten. 5G SA could also become a faultline for MVNO…
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Financial & PerformanceBT ‘on the right path’ but braced for near-term decline
FY25–26: Expectations set for marginal revenue decline in coming FY, but management confident in medium-term prospects as capex tapers and free cash flow balloons.
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Financial & PerformanceBT hunts for further cuts
FY25–26: after delivering its first £3bn savings goal ahead of time, and kicking on with another immediately after, BT has now expanded the programme by £700m and given itself an extra year to hit the new target.
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Financial & PerformanceBT’s retrenchment puts domestic struggles under the spotlight
FY25–26: BT claims to be delivering on its UK-focused, next-gen network-led strategy, but continues to struggle with outcomes as revenue falls and familiar problems in B2B hold the Group back.
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M&Anexfibre’s Datta: ‘corner shop fibre’ is dead, the UK needs an infra megamart
Interview: proposed £2bn acquisition of Netomnia is sparking fierce debate across the UK broadband sector. With industry heavyweights trading blows over duopoly fears and infrastructure overlap, discover why CEO Rajiv Datta believes this consolidation is crucial to challenging Openreach.
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Network & InfraCityFibre joins exclusive one million connections club
UK’s largest altnet reaches one million, attributing the achievement to wholesale success and rapid fibre build-out. CEO Simon Holden says “maintaining” commercial momentum is key priority, as it moves to achieve further scale, including through potential acquisitions and Project Gigabit build-out…
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Analyst BriefingUK Infrawatch: Digi lands; CityFibre dials back; BT targets regional altnets
Analyst Briefing: Latest from the digital infra scene in the UK, including: a European budget challenger emerges in UK, BDUK adjusts to a revised fibre market reality, more rumours of regional player consolidation, and plenty more…
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Strategy & ChangeFrom danger zone to digital powerhouse: Kearney maps Europe’s path to telecom recovery
Analysis: Europe’s telecoms sector has built extensively but failed to monetise, risking stagnation without urgent structural intervention. Kearney’s comprehensive diagnostic guides on how regionalisation, network resilience, strategic private finance partnerships, and other remedies can revitalise the sector’s finances and the continent’s digital economy.
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Network & InfraUK: CityFibre and BDUK massively renegotiate Project Gigabit subsidies, to reflect market realities
As CityFibre cancels or shrinks its Project Gigabit commitments, halving the covered premises while increasing the per-property subsidy, BT/Openreach emerges as the dominant beneficiary of government subsidies.
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Network & InfraGamma’s Edge Migrate: turning the UK’s PSTN switch-off into a strategic channel opportunity
Interview: As of February 2027, PSTN will be no more in the UK, but there remain millions of legacy connections. Gamma has deployed its Edge Migrate service to help partners convert a foreboding migration challenge into an enhanced upsell opportunity for voice and security. Learn more…
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Financial & PerformanceFighting fibre with fibre: BT Consumer goes hyper-local in counter-attack against challengers
FY25–26: BT CEO Kirkby trumpets a marginal return to broadband customer growth as an early sign of a Consumer comeback.
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Financial & Performance‘Maestro’ Selley handed licence to ‘get radical’ in BT International revival
FY25–26: global B2B division may be smaller and more focused but challenge remains acute, with veteran CEO parachuted in to steer turnaround just as sell-off rumour mill spins up again.
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Financial & PerformanceThree cheers for London: Community Fibre achieves cash-positivity, returns to rollout, adds mobile multiplay
FY25/Analyst Briefing: upbeat and staunchly local altnet resumes build-out and ups ambitions, now partly self-funding as possibly first UK-fibreco to turn cash-positive following strong FY25. Also debuting highly-competitive mobile bolt-on bolstering fixed-mobile convergence challenge…
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Financial & PerformanceVodafone’s Della Valle declares start of another ‘new chapter’
FY25–26: CEO considers the Group to be ‘stable’ and ready to kick on towards milestones promised over past few years: revival in Germany, growth in B2B, and broad-based free cash flow momentum across the Group. Questions remain over whether new chapter brings Vodafone any closer to a happily ever after…
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Network & InfraWe built the networks. Now we must teach them to think.
The operating model that built today’s telecom networks is no longer sufficient: complexity has outpaced human execution. Celfocus’s Executive Chairman Luis Salvado believes that the industry must shift from application-driven to intelligence-defined systems — or risk being outpaced by hyperscalers already treating networks as orchestrated software.