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🏢 BT Group UK Telecommunications, Fiber Broadband, Enterprise Connectivity and Global Network Services | |
| BT Group is one of the United Kingdom’s largest telecommunications providers, delivering fixed broadband, mobile services, enterprise connectivity, wholesale network access and digital infrastructure services. Its major operating brands and units include BT, EE, Openreach and BT Business. | |
| Why It Matters | BT is central to the UK’s fiber broadband, mobile and enterprise networking markets. Its strategy is increasingly focused on domestic UK connectivity, FTTP expansion, 5G, network modernization and a proposed 50:50 international enterprise joint venture with Verizon. |
| Founded | 1984 as a private company; roots trace back to the UK telecommunications system and British Telecom |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Chief Executive | Allison Kirkby |
| Business Areas | Fiber Broadband • Mobile Networks • Enterprise Connectivity • Wholesale Access • Cloud Connectivity • Cybersecurity • Managed Network Services • International Enterprise Networking |
| Key Platforms & Brands | BT • EE • Openreach • BT Business • Global Fabric • FTTP Broadband • 5G • Ethernet Services • Cloud Connect • Security Services |
| Recent Strategic Focus | BT is sharpening its focus on the UK market while pursuing a proposed 50:50 joint venture with Verizon that would combine the companies’ international enterprise operations into a new global connectivity business serving multinational customers. |
| Editorial Coverage | Converge Digest tracks BT across fiber broadband, mobile networks, Openreach, enterprise connectivity, global network services, cloud networking, subsea and terrestrial infrastructure, cybersecurity and telecom restructuring. |
| Related Knowledge Hubs | Verizon • Openreach • Fiber • 5G • Cloud • Security |
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The concept of the borderless enterprise combined with IoT raises real security concerns for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), says Kate Kuehn, Head of…
Openreach, the wholly owned and independently governed division of the BT Group, appointed Sir Brendan Barber and Edward Astle as independent members of a…
BT announced immediate availability of Trend Micro’s Deep Security data centre solution on BT’s Cloud Compute platform, enabling protection for physical, virtual, and cloud…
BT and Huawei agreed to conduct joint research into 5G. Specifically, BT and Huawei will work together at the world leading BT Labs in…
BT announced the appointment of Mike McTighe as the first Chairman of Openreach, BT’s local fixed network business. McTighe is an experienced telecoms executive…
Ofcom, the official regulator for the telecom market in the UK, will seek the legal separation of Openreach from BT. Openreach is the division…
BT has selected Nuage Networks from Nokia for its future software defined WAN service. An intitial launch is planned for early 2017. Financial terms…
BT’s Openreach division has selected Huawei and Nokia to provide a range of equipment in support of its ultrafast broadband roll out across the…
BT is set to launch a “Compute for Microsoft Azure” service that allows BT customers to order Microsoft Azure alongside BT’s own cloud services…
BT will begin offering direct access to the Oracle Cloud in the final quarter of calendar year 2016. With BT Cloud Connect for Oracle…
BT is launching a new Smart Hub that is optimised for strong Wi-Fi performance. It comes with 7 antennas and the ability to deliver…
There has been a fundamental shift in the way that companies think about security, says Kate Kuehn, Head of Sales – Security for BT…
BT and Huawei demonstrated speeds of 2 Tbps over a live core network spanning 700km between London and Dublin. Separately, BT also announced today…
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