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Bit off topic but Deutsce Bank continually downgrade BT. Deutche Telekom have been rumoured to takeover BT for many years. They love DT.

Maybe it would be their wish to get BT on the cheap 🤷‍♂️

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/deutsche-bank-reaffirms-their-buy-rating-on-deutsche-telekom-0mph-1034017549

So BT major fall due to disgruntled ex employee venting his spleen, haha you couldn’t make this $hite up 🤦‍♂️

I find the comments at the foot of the page more informative than the article itself. Cityfibre with a 12% take up are a country mile off making a real impact. They seem to have stopped many new builds other than government BDUK. Read the comments though.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/02/cityfibre-report-518k-uk-full-fibre-customers-and-first-full-year-of-profitability.html

Its below, read the detail posted on 9th Feb posted at 20.16 then read up. Thanks Scallywag3.

Many thanks, positive news.

Anybody got access to this?

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/bt-boss-allison-kirkby-interview-labour-fibre-rollout-vnf3plrgk

In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary….come again?

£20k per year currently irrespective of where funds/stocks are derived from.

https://www.gov.uk/individual-savings-accounts

Regarding your S&S ISA you can put £20k in each tax year. Previous years ISA can just be lefts in no matter what their value is. Every year on 6th of April you can buy £20k more in value, that is the current limit set by the government.

I use AJ bell - other brokers are available.

https://www.ajbell.co.uk/isa/stocks-shares-isa

Interesting year ahead, always extremely sad when job losses occur.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/01/altnet-uk-broadband-provider-fibrus-confirms-more-job-cuts.html

Or perhaps fruitcake?

Crackers anyone?

Whether you agree with it or not openreach has been valued at £40 billion in 2021. One of the private equity firms listed in the attached has Marc Allera on the board of one of their companies, remember him?

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-10248943/amp/Private-equity-firms-send-value-BT-cable-arm-40BN.html

Vodafone merger given the go ahead.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/vodafone-and-three-s-15bn-merger-approved-by-competition-watchdog/ar-AA1vj0rB?ocid=BingNewsSerp

*Well well

Well we’ll, Marc Allera is on the board of Jagex Limited…..Owned by CVC Capital Partners. They are a Jersey based private equity firm who are permanently linked with a takeover of Openreach! This telecoms industry is quite incestuous really 🤔

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/11/ee-uk-and-bts-consumer-division-ceo-marc-allera-to-step-down.html#google_vignette

Oops - with link

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lawrencelight/2022/10/16/why-market-predictions-are-so-often-wrong/

I never make predictions (follow the rat 😂), interesting article. We fit our own narrative when making predictions. If I lose confidence in BT I will sell.

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=70948d9d35ca5a0a138f55519bc8ebe304ca8181111dc6b4e32e58d135b469faJmltdHM9MTczMTYyODgwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=29ebc13d-3363-6fee-34a5-d57b327e6e07&psq=never+make+predictions+on+a+stock+share+price&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9yYmVzLmNvbS9zaXRlcy9sYXdyZW5jZWxpZ2h0LzIwMjIvMTAvMTYvd2h5LW1hcmtldC1wcmVkaWN0aW9ucy1hcmUtc28tb2Z0ZW4td3Jvbmcv&ntb=1

Go for a walk lad, there’s lovely autumnal colours out there. I’m going for a run.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/social-media-addiction#overview

Pension deficit £4.3 bn fully funded by 2030 when BT will be awash with money. 55000 less staff legacy IT stripped out, fibre built, massive capex/opex reduction, electricity costs reduction, quite a few altnets sadly in the past.