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As we are heading for Brexit and after wanting to become an independent country, why on earth would you want to change the name of a known brand worldwide. BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Suppose we could go back to, Post Office Telecommunications. That would work as a world wide brand......

1% by Christmas !!!

It would appear that they are mainly looking at access to Fibre between BT exchanges and not exchanges to customer sites. At the moment most independent network companies utilise the BT network and the terminating equipment is BTs, the provider then provides access to there customer, via a BT link or there own independent network for that area. Ofcom are looking at giving network providers access to the Fibre only with there own terminating equipment instead of BTs. This would be from BT site to BT site only, extending on from that site would be via there own network presence in a BT site, or a BT equipped link. Effectively allowing a provider to use the BT fibre network as they do today, but put there own equipment on the end's and not Bts. Making building a network easer but renting only the glass tube only.
Upwards and onwards again I see...

A very good piece, nice to know they are regulated by, OFGEM. Perhaps we could ask to be regulated by them as well
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Up again I see

Aus it will still require a high speed fibre derived network to transport the networks signalling, customer data and network overheads. If radio was used to transport all of the above a lot of the allocated spectrum would not be available for customer data. Guess you could argue using microwave line of site network, until a tree gets a bit to tall and that's the end of that link. Until another media is found then fibre will be the default network for a while yet, it's in place to sites just need to upgrade the hardware data rate as needed for the next generation technology.

Bluepete is correct. Without the BT Ethernet Backhaul network, there would be no mobile data. 99% of all mobile masts are connected via a Fibre link to either the operators local node and then into there network, by BT fibre, or back to a BT node to then connect into BTs core network and on to the operator. Without the BT Fibre network you would only be able to use your mobile to make a call and send an SMS. No matter what 5g, 6g or 7g will offer, it will still need a very high speed fibre network to work...
Good to see we are back where we should be today...

I can see no long term gain in selling off Openreach, there could be a short term benefit of cash in the bank but after a year or so BT would be paying it to Openreach for its services. A better option would be to do the deal with Apple for providing there TV product, a respected brand that could reap big rewards for BT.

In our, up to the minute, want it done now, world we forget very quickly, just interested in the now not the then. Just 6 months ago we were around the £2 mark, now we are up nearly 20% on that price. Things are still heading in the right direction, an as I said a few days ago, we have a divi in the bank. The trend is in the right direction, the new CEO is announced, quarterly update in a few days, with hopefully all on track in that. What has happened in the last 2 days is a little suspicious, but that's my opinion, keep the faith, a few pence here and there and it will be back around 2.50. Hopefully !!!

Looks like " Happy Clapping" works...

Close £2.50 ???

I can think of one

Another good day holding above pre Dividend price, and a dividend in the bank to boot. Days are gone of the 2.25p traders trying to make a penny here and there. One or two pence average rise every couple of weeks will do fine...

Aus understand your view, but, in the past BT took payment holiday but not the staff. In 2009 the A-B-C sections were closed in effect, up to that point they were final salary after that they became carrier average from 2009 to taking pension, the previous entitlements were frozen and protected. Staff also increased there payments after that date. Then last year more changes and a rise again in staff payments. I think BT has had a fair chance to put things in order it should now be left alone. Hope we are up again today, tortoise time...

Pacemaker. Yes bit of a stitch up for all after 2009 ! If memory serves well section C lump some if taken is small compared to B so not such an impact on the fund as B members still to take there pension going forward. Still think what people were offered when they joined the company should be honoured...

Amendment... got my CPI RPI the wrong way round... oil scheme A and B are CPI and scheme C is RPI so should read.

Theres a lot of fuss over this. it only applies to staff who joined BT between April 86 and March 2001. On the whole it is not as good a scheme as earlier versions, A and B, which are the Gold plated ones that many talk about, to be enrolled in either of them you needed to be in the Post office since 1971 or BT up to 1986. Therefor a large majority of the members are already drawing there pension based on CPI increases, if over 1% in September the previous year. The section C scheme that has RPI as its increase base, also has a 5% maximum, PA, rise if RPI is over 5%.
So if RPI were to be say 6% then the rise would only be 5%. There were a lot of staff that left BT between 1986 and 2001 on release schemes, so would only have a few years in if they started after 1986. Those that are still at BT are paying much higher contributions under the changes made last year and back in 2009, to help offset the burden on the scream going forward.
The newer pension products that staff are in since 2001, if the started after that date, are simply a savings product that is very unlikely to burden the company in the future. Let those in section C keep the rights they were given by BT in the past, its been planed for with future promised lump sums, for a change don't let big companies screw over there pensioners. As we have seen them do in the last few years.

Theres a lot of fuss over this. it only applies to staff who joined BT between April 86 and March 2001. On the whole it is not as good a scheme as earlier versions, A and B, which are the Gold plated ones that many talk about, to be enrolled in either of them you needed to be in the Post office since 1971 or BT up to 1986. Therefor a large majority of the members are already drawing there pension based on RIP increases, if over 1% in September the previous year. The section C scheme that has CPI as its increase base, also has a 5% maximum, PA, rise if CPI is over 5%.
So if CPI were to be say 6% then the rise would only be 5%. There were a lot of staff that left BT between 1986 and 2001 on release schemes, so would only have a few years in if they started after 1986. Those that are still at BT are paying much higher contributions under the changes made last year and back in 2009, to help offset the burden on the scream going forward.
The newer pension products that staff are in since 2001, if the started after that date, are simply a savings product that is very unlikely to burden the company in the future. Let those in section C keep the rights they were given by BT in the past, its been planed for with future promised lump sums, for a change don't let big companies screw over there pensioners. As we have seen them do in the last few years.

Yup priced out. But then I don't know how to work a share, do I ...... Or so I was told just a few weeks ago. Never mind we live and learn.

Up is up, at this rate them 2.25ers will be priced out of the market.

PM Libby Barr's office, sure you know how to get hold of that Email address.

Faultsman. That has been the problem since day one. Staff were told to say when the contacted a customer, by phone or in person, to say, I am Fred from Openreach. The reply would be, Who? So in the end staff kept it to, high I am Fred from BT, saved all the questions. Even when people asked, why? After explaining they would say, so you are still BT why call it something different. Staff in other parts of BT when contacting a customer would not say which division they were from, just its Fred from BT. It gets even more confusing for customers who are expecting a guy from say Sky to do something and it's an Openreach person working on behalf of Sky ,or a contractor to Openreach turning up to do a job for BT !!!!!!!!! People still expect the person they are dealing with to be from the company they know, BT, British Gas, British rail, the water board. Think it's called, Job creation......... Or jobs for the boys at the top, have this wedge of money to change this for the sake of doing so.