(ShareCast News) - BT Group plans to double the size of its UK customer services workforce with an extra 1,000 new jobs before April 2017. Regulator Ofcom on Friday released figures that showed BT was rated below average for landline and broadband customer service, while soon-to-be-acquired mobile n
Read more(ShareCast News) - The Competition and Markets Authority has approved BT Group's plans to acquire EE, bringing together the UK's largest fixed telecoms business and the UK's largest mobile telecoms business. The approval was granted on Friday unconditionally without remedies, and allows the telco to
Read more(ShareCast News) - BHP Billiton has announced a multi-billion-dollar writedown of its US assets as the commodities giant struggles with plummeting prices. The company could be forced to halve its dividend to weather the storm in the commodities sector, blamed "significant volatility and much weaker
Read more(ShareCast News) - BT Group is said to be considering joint ventures with Deutsche Telekom once the acquisition of EE goes through and it becomes its largest shareholder. The group's chairman, Sir Mike Rake, said strategic partnerships and more media deals to boost the television channels shown over
Read more(ShareCast News) - BT Group has appointed Clive Selley as the new chief executive officer of its broadband infrastructure unit, Openreach. He will replace Joe Garney, who is leaving to become CEO of Nationwide Building Society and the handover will take place this quarter. Selley is currently CEO o
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