LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest telecoms group BT has bowed to industry and regulatory pressure and agreed to legally separate its national network, as the government seeks to deliver faster ...

BT and Openreach have agreed to separate in a move desired by Ofcom and one which may help the UK's telecoms and broadband industry flourish. On Friday, the companies revealed that almost two years ...

UK telecoms giant BT Group may be forced to split up its Openreach fibre network and consumer internet service provider businesses under competition proposals put forward by communications watchdog ...

BT Group (Other OTC: BTGOF - news) will take a potentially decisive step towards averting an enforced break-up this week when it names a former director of the telecoms regulator Ofcom as the first ...

BT and Openreach have completed what is thought to be the largest one-off Tupe transfer of employees in UK corporate history, moving 31,000 people – including thousands of broadband network engineers ...

Telecoms regulator Ofcom has pronounced itself “broadly satisfied” with the steps taken so far to legally separate national operator BT from its network infrastructure business Openreach, saying ...

For almost a year, communications regulator Ofcom has been conducting an investigation into whether BT and its Openreach broadband arm should be split up. Rival companies like Sky, TalkTalk and even ...

In the latest development in the BT/Openreach saga, a panel of cross-party MPs has called for the provider to be split from its broadband division if it doesn't invest significantly more in UK ...

BT's infrastructure wing Openreach should function as a "distinct company" with its own board, and take ownership of its physical network, the UK communications regulator has told the telecoms giant.

I estimate the Openreach network to be worth £22bn. BT's entire market cap right now is £15bn, so Openreach is trading cheap with the rest thrown in for free. I am not buying as I doubt BT's ...

United Kingdom telecommunications provider BT has announced that broadband arm Openreach is now consulting with industry and consumers on potentially rolling out a full-fibre broadband network. "We ...

The BT share price has pulled back in the past few months, undoing some of the gains it made earlier this year. It was ...