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British telecommunications and network services group.
Inner London Crown Court jailed Ajay Shinjin for two and a half years for helping steal nearly $260,000 in crypto through SIM swaps. Once the victims' numbers moved, their texted security codes went to the thieves, and BT was the one that noticed.
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ActionAble's 2026 Disability Index found 88 FTSE 100 companies publish no figure for the share of their staff who are disabled. Mandatory disability pay gap reporting is promised but has no date, and those 88 would begin it with no published baseline.
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Virgin Media O2 called BT's £400 million rescue of TalkTalk a stitch-up, days after the CMA said it could block Nexfibre's Netomnia deal. The CMA's objection there is that CityFibre, another challenger, would be squeezed out of wholesale competition.
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BT temporarily cut broadband to customers who ignored two years of switchover contact, with 1.3m copper lines still to move by the end of January. For anyone left on copper, the open choice is who sets the migration date.
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UK tech firms have asked the government for at least £20bn over five years, partly as procurement guarantees, to build sovereign AI capacity. If the government adopts the procurement rules they propose, public buyers would weigh domestic AI suppliers differently.
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