Worcester Trading Standards officers aided by West Mercia Police, in partnership with UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT and BT, executed a warrant on December 14th as part of the continuing fight against illegal streaming. Officers visited two addresses in Worcester and seized a variety of equipment relating to the provision of internet protocol television […]
BT Group will be recruiting over 150 new local jobs as well as beginning a multi-million pound refurbishment of its second contact centre in Newcastle, located at its North Tyneside building. The new and full-time contact centre roles will be recruited by EE, part of BT Group, over the next six months. BT says the […]
BT Sport has confirmed its presenting line-up for the 2021-22 edition of The Ashes, ahead of the first Test getting underway in Brisbane on December 7th. Presenter Matt Smith will head up proceedings live from the BT Sport Studio in London, alongside former England internationals across the series including Alastair Cook, Moeen Ali, Steve Harmison, […]
Discovery is reported to be in talks about BT’s sale of its sports unit, despite earlier confirmation in September that sports streaming service DAZN was in “advanced” discussions. Discovery, which owns Eurosport and certain rights to the Olympic Games, is understood to be discussing a joint venture with BT that would combine their sports broadcasting […]
BT Group has launched a new business-wide plan to focus and accelerate its efforts to build a better business for its customers, the economy and society at large. BT Group says the new manifesto outlines the action the business is taking, and the measurable commitments it has put in place, to create greater impact with […]
On December 4th BT Sport will be premiering its Valentino Rossi Special. The special is a look back at Valentino Rossi’s illustrious career in MotoGP after ‘The Doctor’ brought to an end his incredible 25-years in the sport. The documentary will provide a rare insight into Rossi’s career at the top level; in his own […]
In what is understood to be the first conviction of its type in the UK, a man who created and built a software package which enabled illegal access to BT Sport, Sky, Netflix and other subscription television content has been sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment. The software package or, ‘build’ he created […]
BT has opened its new global headquarters in Aldgate, London, as part of the telco’s ongoing root and branch transformation programme, which includes its offices across the UK. The building, known as One Braham, has now opened with nearly all colleagues already working from the site. Housing around 3,500 colleagues, the new HQ will be […]
BT Sport will premiere a thought-provoking short film created by students from Newham Sixth Form College, as BT Sport Takeover returns on November 28th at 6pm on BT Sport 1. The film is the result of an innovative BT Sport community initiative which provides local students, with no prior TV experience, access to an eight-week […]
Ofcom has published the latest league tables on the complaints it receives about the UK’s major home phone, broadband, mobile and pay-TV firms. The quarterly report reveals the number of complaints made to Ofcom between April and June this year, when the UK’s lockdown restrictions began to ease. Complaints in this quarter fell across the […]