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We do indeed live in strange and disturbing times.
Brexiteers and Remainers alike have given up on defending or deriding Brexit and it is just accepted the country and its people will be dramatically worse off IF it happens!
The fight is now just tribal
This has gone quiet but they’d be pretty dull to do anything before October the 31st
Aus,
It won’t be worth the investment for any incoming company imho outside city limits. The infrastructure involved to basically double up on what BT already have in situ is mind boggling. Of course we could always sell it to them. At last count it was worth £80bn!
Well they certainly won’t be installing any fibre outside major cities!
Surely Boris will want to 'bring the country together'...lol
BT is going to need a pretty big carrot to do that
On a positive note Boris yet again confirmed his commitment to fibre to everyone!
We all know there is only one way of delivering that and it’s through BT.
So hopeful the ****sorm that’s coming with Brex**** will be balanced with a doubling in SP
Car selling is a petrol and reason for huge dip is Boris adding to Brexit woes and no deal crap, according to garages, as rest was already factored in. Only happened in last couple of weeks
I can justify blaming Brexit for part of the SP fall as seen first hand staff loss and loss of income.
Bloody Brexit. The gift that keeps giving.
Totally off subject but in process of changing car and used car prices in free fall down to Brexit . That’s another £2k to add to my estimated already £10k I’ve lost since the referendum!
How anyone sane person can still support this pathetic exercise is beyond belief! I guess the answer was in the question..sane, they are not!
While ofcom have screwed Bt in the past (although I think they are now realising their mistake) there is NO excuse for non compliance.
Redundancies underway to save £1.5bn.
However, no need to feel sorry for employees as they’re dying to go...lol.
Avy you mss the point of my post. BT has introduced a lot of measures that could make cutting the divi irrelevant. Hence it’s a possibility not a done thing like you think.
We’ll be in a pretty bad state if after all the proposed changes we’re still languishing under 200 with an 8% divi end of next year
I think divi if cut it would be only 10%
There’s a lot going on with staff reductions , downsizing and selling off departments which is why there 'may' be a divi cut not a definite one. A lot can change in a year and it’s no coincidence that the forecast reductions in wages within this time is £1.5bn, miraculously exactly the same as the divi cost
Almost too nervous to write this ...lol
Been a lot of negative announcements recently with DB and I think at least one other downgrade, plus possibly reducing the divi.
SP has bounced around the low 190’s but appears to be steadying .. hope it’s a good sign :-)
My2p,
Oh dear. You really need to understand more about telecoms if you are investing in it.
4g or 5g is currently only workable as home broadband for very small rural areas
Why no buyout?
It’s no secret DT was interested. Combine the SP drop, pound drop, pension deficit drop and the fact BT now encompasses their own EE (which they were paid handsomely for, and BT is now a mere fraction of its value three years ago.
And what’s actually changed? BT didn’t get an expected £500m form Italy but everything else is not that much different .
BT isn’t a mining company whose seam has run dry, it’s a profitable business that’s demand for it’s prod will only increase .
Hence, something has to give and maybe it’s rose tinted glasses but I think it will be soon
Seriously, this is like waiting for a stretched elastic band to snap.
Enough pussy footing around and do something drastic. Buyout or bust, I really don’t care anymore but this ‘limbo’ can’t go on like the CEO just said in his pathetic speech.
What will happen when the divi hits 10%?
Looks like DB had a heads up on todays no new news.
Has the CEO just painted the way for a selloff? it is what he's know for afterall
Would anyone really be surprised to wake up one morning to a sp of £4?
Avy
'Jan du Plessis is a disaster. He has just announced a probable dividend cut next year.'
No he didn't!
Read your own post and respond when your hard on goes down
Avy,
Of course it’s to do with Ofcom and Brexit!
BT is being held by the throat by Ofcom whose business model is to give BT's profits away to leeching other companies and prevent investment.
Why should we shareholders have to pay for investment in this ridiculous scenario?
Sod em lets fold the business and share the £8 a share proceeds
And as for Brexit, I said before colleagues lost their jobs and BT lost millions in business the day after the wreckorendum so don’t give me that bull.
Boris just committed to fibre broadband for everyone...lol
Probably more lies but be good for BT if true.
Perhaps he should put it on the side of a bus..lmfao
Doh!
Seems even I make this usual slip
Avy.
DT were wrong as they had BT as a sell in the 200's yet they rose to £5. Not good or even correct advice ...simples
As said they’ve always been negative so bound to be right 50% of the time and just lucky? Or more like just trying to influence