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Apologies, inflation. Took the two messages to be related.

What's the 2.3%? The ofcom fine isn't the Patourel case.

Anyone know what the near half a billion goodwill payment for BT Business was for?

My guess is a good outcome on the court case could kick this up by 10-25%.

Adam Crozier predictably being called out as lying in his Post Office testimony. BT would do well to get rid of him. A fish rots from the head.

Would a monstrous competition tribunal fine be sufficient to stop or decrease the divi?

Cookoo - I mean this seriously - are you okay? I wonder if there would be benefit in you seeking assessment from a mental health professional.

Only a guess ...

1. The court case goes against BT and they have to pay £1bn+.

2. Divi cancelled to fill some of the gap.

3. Share price drops maybe 10%.

4. Draghi screws as no div to find his debt and his holding has halved in value.

5. DT offer Draghi some cash, perhaps not enough for his holding.

6. DT takeover BT.

Recent annual profit of about £30m at BT Ireland.

Https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/altice-debt-drama-brings-us-style-creditor-cooperation-to-europe

Caught a bit of this today - dear Lord, Crozier is a charlatan. I'm the context of the post office, he looks awful. Poor recollection, no accountability. In the context of everywhere else he's worked - a miserable run - not a single success from what I can see. Almost car crash disasters. And then BT. What's he doing? How and why was he appointed? Shifty, grifting no-mark. He should be unemployed. And possibly criminally investigated.

Think iWeb only had joining free (currently being waived) and transaction fee. No platform / management fee for equities.

Canny financiers.

I clearly don't understand them. I was thinking in terms of clarity, why it can't say "Acquisition" or "Disposal" instead of "An acquisition or disposal of voting rights".

Thanks for the info. Useful. Wish TR1s were clearer.

Yes, that's how I read it, too. They previously had 6.6% of available shares, now increased the 7.09%.

Thanks for your response. Think I may need to break the Excel out. Dividends from both over the years have been solid. Wondered if the divs have compensated for the reduction in share price.

If you held £10k of Vodafone on the date they sold Verizon and didn't sell either the Vodafone or Verizon, just reinvested divs, would you be up or down? Still unclear to me if that deal was ever any good / bad for investors.

Https://www.catribunal.org.uk/

Lightico are huge. A global outfit and market leading in their services. They win many awards and have a large volume of well known and high profile clients. I wonder if you've either looked up a PO Box address or an organisation with the same or similar name.