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EE and Virgin.

or just have an EE sim in the home hub to provide connectivity until the OR boys finish their cuppa and decide to turn up and do some work

They don’t need the research labs out in the sticks, they just need to look at 5G. (Okay, I know, WiFi+fibre to off load home usage from the macro network, but who knows, with many more small cells they might be able to ditch copper.)

Anyhow. BT. Going nowhere super fast it seems. Not much will happen until the new guy is in and flexes his muscles - if he can. At least that’s the expectation. Meanwhile Gav’s plan is in motion. Whatever than means.

Pete, I’d be blue too if I were English. “lol”

Lammykins, I don’t believe warren buffet watches the share price of each of his investments everyday- and I don’t think he wastes time on these sites either! If you are day-trading, sure you must watch the share price. If not, and you have shares because you think a company will give you decent returns over a reasonable period, why would you watch the share price every day? It shouldn’t affect your investment decisions. And if a share tanks well, you then you cut your losses and move on or you decide it’s “long term” and hope there will be some recovery.

Good point. Bring on 5G and sell all that copper - might fund a few more engineers (or a tiny bit of pensions) and work on getting fibre to all the new small cells - that could sit on some telegraph poles or phone boxes. [tongue is firmly in cheek]

Plusnet is a value brand. BT is a historic brand - for good or bad - maybe got to wait ‘til the work on Consumer side of things changes perception? Premium brand (well, for cost!). Old fogeys paying their fixed line rental won’t want change ;) EE has 30+ million subs on mobile - Premium brand. so brand change (to “boring old fixed line BT”?!) at their peril.

Heh, that article would make me more more concerned about US tech secreting data back to the US!

Huaweu was founded by Chinese Military man... no doubt the Chinese government is all through the company (would they be allowed to become so big a company otherwise?) ...but does it really have “malware” within its software listening in? Recording the data (on what hardware?) and/or sending it back to China (sneaking the traffic out of a customer’s network and somehow getting back to China?)... might be possible but... improbable? Never say never but I don’t think anything has been found yet...

Who’s word?

The landline is dead. Long live the landline! (ie fibre broadband). Who uses a fixed-phone anyway these days?! (Our seniors and they are a dying breed). The future is mobile. EE network: 4G (5G for publicity - roll out across the country will take a while - as will choice of affordable devices) - so 4G with the added ESN cachet. When at home then switch to WiFi (on your mobile device) and bandwdith via fibre - to carry on with apps and watching entertainment you’ve subscribed to. Being a bitpipe is okay when you flog the capacity to other providers - but the margins on bits continually fall. Need to add value...Not sure if football rights will add value. They definitely cost... is it keeping customers? Who can say... perhaps better to invest in customer service and the perception of BT (mammoth task). It’ll need a deft leader

Daily Mail?! No doubt RBS is a cause of cancer too.

As the Bb article has it, the budget probably isn’t big enough to attract an American CEO - so BT shall just have to pay peanuts...

Unlike Boris I shall apologise Velo. I think the heat got to me. It wasn’t meant to be so stinging an attack on you. I should have put in more wit. I have read your comments going back a month or two at least I think, and I don’t recall the 200 sma being mentioned (perhaps I should have gone back more than 200 days)? so apologies if I missed it. If I had a point, I think It was that some of your summaries read (to me) as if they are a matter of fact, “the bears did this” and “the bulls did that”, or “the market” is doing the other - presented as THE narrative. Of course it’s not, it can’t be, it’s just an interpretation - of an interpretation (TA) - of the facts (=the day’s trades). I guess I’ve now made a mortal enemy. Sairfecht is Scots (I await the tirade!) - didn’t I read 50% of British(?) DNA is Germanic? We are all ultimately out of Africa, so aspersions about my recent origins lack enough depth! My “fabulously wealthy” comment was because if chartist interpretations could be relied upon (or indeed anyone who has a system for gambling) then I very much doubt such folks would need to be on here, would they? They should surely be enjoying their fortune. Or is it because gambling is addictive. Or perhaps they like the sound of their own typing. Of which I have done enough.

I should have indicated I was in full-on sarcasm mode.

... I should add, that’s just my curious observation. Of course, you may be fabulously wealthy based on your stockmarket predictive prowess and I shall stand corrected!

Honestly, velo, your interpretation of numbers always sounds so convincing - until the share price moves goes a different way and then it’s, “oh yes, but of course the analysis is now ....”. Why wasn’t the 200 day average thing mentioned before??

... *could* be 370 customers... so, what, an extra £150k in revenue p.a. Woo-hoo. Exciting times ahead then.

Watch out Premier League - you’ll be half your value in 5 years, the Football Association and the fans will be p!&&ed off - but at least the top dog will get a good reward I’m sure.