BT Global Services
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Miami-based consultancy Neoris has appointed Luis Álvarez Satorre, formerly CEO of BT Global Services, as its president of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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BT has copied Telia’s idea by setting up a “division X”, where it will concentrate work on new technologies.
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BT and OneWeb have finally confirmed a report in Capacity in March that they are exploring using the satellite network for rural coverage in the UK.
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BT has appointed Chet Patel to head its operation in the Americas, replacing Jennifer Artley, who has moved to Verizon Business.
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BT has lost Jennifer Artley, who was president of its Americas operation, to Verizon Business, where she will be senior VP of strategic initiatives.
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TIM and BT have signed a preliminary agreement for the acquisition of two select BT Business Units in Italy by TIM.
Forthcoming events
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BT has completed sale of the Latin American part of what used to be BT Global Services.
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A former CFO of BT has had his honour removed, 10 years after he left the company and eight years after being convicted of insider trading.
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BT has completed negotiations to sell the French domestic operations of what was BT Global Services.
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BT’s own auditor, KPMG, has criticised the group’s internal controls following the 2017 scandal when it wrote off £530 million of losses in its Italian business.
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Damien Staples, former VP of wholesale voice and roaming at BT Global Services, has joined Inmarsat, where he has become VP of wholesale.
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BT is talking about selling its domestic operations in France to Computercenter, a £5.1 billion UK-based company.
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A private equity group has bought BT’s domestic operations in 16 Latin American countries for an undisclosed sum, a business BT says delivered £110 million revenue in the last financial year.
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BT has accelerated the transformation of its global unit with the sale of its Spanish managed ICT services business, which includes its domestic network infrastructure.
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BT Group’s CEO Philip Jansen (pictured) plans to sell more than £100 million in telecoms infrastructure in Holland, as he attempts to simplify the company.
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A US law firm is to file a new class-action complaint against BT tomorrow, naming past senior directors in the scandal at BT Italia, which caused the group to write off £530 million.
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Former Telstra executive Nathan Bell has become chief digital officer at Singapore-based mobile operator M1.
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Orange is no longer a shareholder in BT after it sold its last 2.5% for just £486 million, valuing the BT group at only £19.4 billion.
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BT is hoping to raise €300 million by selling BT Global Services’ operation in Spain, according to a report this morning.
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Cloudreach has announced a new agreement with BT’s Global Services unit to provide combined cloud managed services to multinational customers.
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BT’s senior executives in the UK knew about efforts to inflate the performance of the company’s Italian business, the Reuters news agency is reporting.
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BT’s new CEO, Philip Jansen, takes over the CEO role on Friday, at the end of what could be a defining week for the troubled company.
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BT has become one of the first international telecoms companies to be granted a domestic telecoms licence for nationwide services in China.
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Telecom Italia – now known as TIM – has offered to buy BT’s scandal-hit Italian operation, Capacity understands.
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After months of trials, blockchain will be used commercially in the industry in 2019 in a $13bn market, leaders tell Alan Burkitt-Gray. Meanwhile blockchain is also moving into bandwidth-on-demand and voice routing
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Bas Burger, the sixth CEO of BT Global Services in 15 years, wants to shift the division to growth sectors and to park traditional areas such as voice in the legacy category. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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BT has appointed law enforcement specialist Kevin Brown as the new head of its security division, replacing Mark Hughes, who is stepping down at the end of the year.
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Damien Staples has left BT Global Services, where he was VP of wholesale voice and roaming, following a reorganisation of the division’s business.
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BT has reported falling orders and revenue for its Global Services division, in the group’s half-year results, announced this morning.
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BT has unveiled a new service and network automation platform which aims to support enterprise customers looking to adopt software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) technologies.