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BT sells off specialist financial markets division
BT is sell its specialist network tor financial markets Radianz to Transaction Network Services (TNS).
BT refunds £18m to customers over contract rule breaches
BT has refunded or credited £18 million to customers following a breach of Ofcom’s consumer protection rules.
BT wins £9.8m project to deliver fibre broadband to to Swansea Bay
BT has won £9.8 million contract to roll out full fibre broadband to nearly 1,800 remote homes and businesses across the Swansea Bay City Region. The Better Broadband Infill Project is part of th the Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme, with infrastructure partner Openreach. BT will also contribute additional funding to raise the
BT Wins Class Action Over Alleged Overcharging of Landline Customers, Avoids £1.3 Billion Payout
BT has successfully defended itself in a class action lawsuit over alleged overcharging of landline customers, avoiding a potential payout of around £1.3 billion in compensation. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled in BT’s favor after an eight-week trial of a class action brought by Justin Le Patourel, founder of CALL (Collective Action on Landlines).
BT fined £17.5m for 999 call-handling failures
Ofcom has fined BT £17.5 million for being ill-prepared to respond to a catastrophic failure of its emergency call handling service last summer after network disruption affected 14,000 emergency calls in June 2023 and lasted 10.5 hours BT connects 999 and 112 calls in the UK and provides relay services for deaf and speech-impaired people.
BT slapped with £2.8 million Ofcom fine for EE and Plusnet contract info infringements
Ofcom has fined BT £2.8m because subsidiaries EE and Plusnet did not provide more than a million customers with clear contract information before they signed up for a new deal. Ofcom said: “The company broke our consumer protection rules designed to ensure telecoms customers get clear, comparable information about the services they are considering buying.”
BT hastens mass move away from ‘fragile’ PSTN
BT Group has started moving broadband-only connections off copper to digital landlines over full fibre broadband as part of its goal to switch all customers off the current PSTN by January 2027. BT Consumer has resumed non-voluntary migrations for customers who haven’t used their landline in 12 months and who aren’t classified as vulnerable or
BT to turn 2,000 payphones into high-speed connectivity street hubs
The country’s public payphones will be tirned into high-speed connectivity hubs courtesy of BT and the Media & Entertainment group Global. The two companies have signed a 10-year partnership to upgrade legacy payphones and 2,000 payphones into digital hubs for local communities in more than 200 towns and cities that will provide public Wi-Fi and
Room with a ‘phew!” BT Tower to be turned into a hotel
If you’ve ever wanted to spend the night at the BT Tower – rejoice. The BT Tower is being sold for for £275m to MCR Hotels, who plan to turn it into a hotel. The BT Tower is now largely obsolete as a telecoms facility as the all-digital age beclons. Ntwork operations provided from the
BT innovation arm Etc to trial conversion of street cabinets into EV charging points
Etc., the startup and digital incubation arm of BT Group, has unveiled plans to convert street cabinets into electric vehicle charging stations. A series of technical trials will investigate the conversion of up to 60,000 cabinets across the UK to receive the shortage of charging points on UK roads. There are only 53,000 public EV