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$9000/ton, is a bit high, current scrap price for copper wire is around $7500 - but still worth it.

However, there is also a cost in recovering it - possibly 50% ...

The original £50Bn is way out as the calculations were wrong. The estimates failed to take into account the various laters of insulation an how fine the wire actually is.

A more realistic guess (not estimate) done at the time was in the order of £2-5Bn which probably gives £3-7Bn now. And that is for pure copper, not plastic covered scrap.

Take off recovery costs, and maybe at best there is just £2-3Bn of value there - still a large number but way off the £50Bn.

£30bn - I believe the total for all was around $30bn/£22.5Bn and BT paid about £4Bn with Vodafone up at £6Bn.

Still massive number that were idirect taxatuon and money that all operators would never really recover but had any of the incumbents failed that would have been the end for tem in the UK. The total was about 2.5% of UKs GDP!

5G was much more sensible at around £300m

SLA disappears along with all the historic data.

ABDN appears with nothing historic!

Surely it should be moved across as all that changed is the short name SLA >>>> ABDN

I wondered where SLA had gone ...

All SLA data has disappeared and now there is no historic data for ABDN.

The INNDULGENCE card - with NN is a nice to have and I use mine whenever I can. And for some reason the usually very good service becomes extremely good as soon as they know you have one. If you ever use the Restaurant or Bar at Kings Cross or Euston Station, it is very useful as some of the bottled beers are over £100, £200, £400 each! Yes, vintage ales at high prices.

You will only get teh card in January - but a call to te secretariat will get you one as soon as you are registered.

Has anyone heard about when it might be scheduled?

6 weeks since the announcement and total silence

Even if they did sell, which is NOT the case. There would still be on-going rental and other associated costs to cover and any payment would have to cover the cost of a purchaser borrowing the money and paying interest (or recovering te equivalent to any interest lost on finds in the bank) plus profits for the buyer and their shareholders. BT would get a better deal themselves just borrowing money - potentially low interest and no extra costs to pay.

Someone has confidence in BT ...

At 12:38 there was a purchase of 2.212 million shares for just under £5.9M

(it is not shown as anything except as an ordinary trade)

There are brand experts in BT and they know changing it would create major issues - the cost of a new brand would be in te tens of millions, if not hundreds.

Why have they not changed EE to become BT mobile? Because EE is well known and the costs would again be enormous with the potential for a loss of customers.

pacemaker100 said:
"Press saying yesterday down to speculation on a split. So assume today that’s been denied.
Either way a stupid call to announce new CEO today but typical of BT incompetence 😡"

Why is it incompetence?

The decision will have been made days ago, and the appropriate notice sent to the Stock Exchange around midday yesterday - so they will not have known about the slump in the US and Far East. The LSE then publishes that notice at exactly 7:00 AM.

250.xx at last

The graph of today's price has changed, earlier today the previous close line was at 240.45 - now 243.45.

The three month (and other) give yesterdays close as 240.45 too.

Google - also shows the previous close at 240.45 and currently up 9p and 3.74%

"And BT is top FTSE riser!.....yippee"

Is it? Se my previous post ...

2% or just over based on 243 close, or 3.5% based on 240 close and in the current list B American is at 6.5% with a couple of negatives too! the fallers list give Fresnillo at +8.5% ...

There is certainly a block of corrupt data somewhere.

And a quick look at the FTSE 100 risers table:

FTSE 100 Risers Price Change
Capita Group (CPI) 121.05 0.79%
Utd. Utilities (UU.) 731.00 2.76%
Reckitt Ben. Gp (RB.) 6,727.00 0.25%
Easyjet (EZJ) 1,155.50 4.66%
Experian (EXPN) 1,785.50 -0.61%
Intl Consol Air (IAG) 572.20 2.11%
Severn Trent (SVT) 1,875.50 1.02%
Petrofac (PFC) 568.80 -3.59%
Burberry Grp (BRBY) 1,699.50 -0.58%
Intertek Group (ITRK) 4,462.00 -0.25%

At the time of posting:

Price 245.05 Change 1.6 (+0.66%) and immediately below Yesterday's Close 243.45

Then look at the graph: which has the Tuesday close at 230.45 meaning the rise is 4.6 ...

Along with all the other acquisitions and sell off that have been made over time.

Have you also considered the separation of the Cellnet division into MMO2 which become O2?

How much spare cash does Murdoch have?

Please God, NO!