CityFibre plans to roll out its fibre network across business parks in 20 cities by next year November 29, 2016 Broadband infrastructure challenger CityFibre is to roll out its full fibre network to 20 cities in 2017 as part of new plans announced today. The scheme is intended to reach some 600 business parks across CityFibre’s 40 city footprint. CityFibre is planning on growing to 100 towns and cities by 2025 across the UK. “By [...]
BT Tower goes up in flames for the Queen’s birthday – kind of April 21, 2016 Camden Council has taken a rather unique approach to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday this evening – it's projected flames onto the screen at the top of the iconic BT tower. While the screen had been showing a more traditional, and less frightening, birthday message throughout the day, the "beacon flames" started burning at 8.30pm and [...]
BT has hiked prices for thousands of TV, phone and broadband customers April 29, 2016 If you're a BT customer, get ready to sweat a bit as you open that bill. The company has hiked prices for thousands of customers – while promising its users that service is about to improve. The telecoms giant said line rental and the cost of its BT Sport package will both rise by £1, while the [...]
Reform Openreach’s relationship with BT or public anger at the UK broadband market will only rise May 24, 2016 Anyone who read the papers last week might be forgiven for thinking that Britain’s broadband troubles are over. After years of rising anger about poor reliability, speed and coverage, a new piece of legislation is on the way, aiming to deliver universal coverage. Unfortunately, this is not a panacea and, while the recently announced Digital [...]
The Brexit camp has attacked two BT bosses after they wrote to staff emphasising their fears around a Brexit vote June 13, 2016 A former trade minister has savaged BT's leadership after it issued a firm-wide memo this week supporting the UK's EU membership. BT chairman Sir Mike Rake and chief executive Gavin Patterson teamed with the Communications Workers Union, and Prospect to issue the note, which sought to highlight their concerns, without explicitly encouraging staff to vote Remain in [...]
GKN considers debt raise in order to manage £2bn pension shortfall March 19, 2017 Engineering group GKN is preparing to go to debt markets to raise £200m in an attempt to placate the trustees of its pension scheme, according to reports. The FTSE 100 group is in the middle of a three-yearly review of its pension scheme with 2016 accounting valuations revealing its deficit had swelled by £475m over the last 12 months to [...]
Three reasons why Amazon’s $50m deal with the NFL is the most significant moment yet for sport’s live streaming revolution April 6, 2017 We read news on our phones, binge-watch TV shows on our laptop and stream our music from the internet. Live sport on TV is yet to be disrupted in a similar manner, but Amazon’s $50m deal to live stream 10 Thursday night NFL games — a significant increase on the $10m Twitter paid for the [...]
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Ofcom puts forward “strict new rules” for BT’s Openreach division, including cutting charges and boosting installation times March 22, 2016 Ofcom has put forward "strict new rules" that BT must adhere to if it wants to avoid having to carve off its Openreach business. The regulator told BT it must improve its high speed business lines performance and "significantly" cut its wholesale charges for these lines, as part of its review of the market, published [...]
TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding hands over the reigns the firm’s largest shareholder February 1, 2017 Dido Harding has announced she is stepping down as TalkTalk chief executive after seven years in the role. She led the company through a massive cyber attack in 2014, which hammered the group's share price and prompted calls for her resignation. Harding has also been a vocal opponent of BT's continued ownership of the Openreach broadband network, [...]