BT Group
British multinational telecommunications holding company
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| August 2024 | Sunil Mittal's Bharti Enterprises purchased Patrick Drahi's 24.5% stake in BT Group for around £3.2 billion. |
| June 2024 | Carlos Slim acquired a 3.2% equity stake in BT Group. |
| March 2024 | BT Group opened a new multi-million-pound hub and Welsh headquarters in Cardiff, designed to accommodate 1,000 BT Group employees. |
| July 2023 | BT announced the appointment of Allison Kirkby as its chief executive, set to replace Philip Jansen in February 2024. |
| June 25 2023 | BT experienced a catastrophic network failure that prevented nearly 14,000 emergency 999 calls from being connected, leading to a £17.5 million fine from Ofcom due to inadequate backup procedures and lack of preparedness. |
| May 2023 | Altice further increased its stake in BT Group to 24.5%. |
| 2022 | Ofcom varied conditions relating to public phone boxes due to reduced usage. |
| December 16 2022 | BT announced the merger of BT Global Services with Enterprise to form a new division called BT Business, aimed at achieving annual cost savings of £100 million by the end of the 2025 financial year. Bas Burger was appointed to lead the new division. |
| August 2022 | UK government completed its investigation and ruled that Drahi would not be required to cut his stake in BT, concluding no national security risks. |
| May 2022 | UK government opened an investigation into Altice's increasing stake in BT Group due to potential national security implications. |
| April 2022 | BT announced intentions to focus on the EE brand for consumer products. |
| March 2022 | BT Group explored the possibility of severing ties with Rostelecom, Russia's state-backed telecom operator, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but ultimately decided against it to maintain critical communication links between the UK and Russia. |
| December 2021 | BT Group officially vacated its long-standing world headquarters and registered office at the BT Centre in the City of London. |
| December 2021 | Altice increased its stake in BT Group from 12% to 18%. |
| November 2021 | BT Group relocated its world headquarters from the BT Centre at 81 Newgate Street to the new One Braham, an 18-storey building completed earlier in the same year. |
| June 2021 | French telecommunications company Altice acquired a 12% stake in BT, initiated by Patrick Drahi's purchase of 650 million shares for approximately £960 million. |
| February 2021 | BT established its procurement arm 'BT Sourced', which is based in Dublin. |
| February 2021 | BT and EE launched a fixed-line home broadband service with Hybrid Connect device, enabling automatic mobile network connection when fixed-line fails. |
| January 2021 | Law firm Mishcon de Reya filed a £600 million class action lawsuit against BT with the Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleging historic overcharging on landline services since 2009. |
| 2020 | BT was fined £6.3m by Ofcom for violating telecommunications regulations in a public sector deal in Northern Ireland, specifically for not providing equal wholesale network access details to competitor Eir. |
| 2020 | Following a government ruling, BT began the process of removing Huawei equipment from its broadband and mobile networks to comply with new restrictions on Huawei equipment usage. |
| 2020 | Ofcom implemented minimum broadband service conditions for BT and KCOM. |
| 2019 | BT launched a simplified brand logo, replacing the previous multi-coloured globe logo. |
| January 2019 | BT became the first international group to receive two national telecoms licences from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, enabling direct service sales to Chinese customers. |
| 2018 | Legislation added a minimum standard of fixed broadband service to BT's universal service obligation, subject to a cost provision cap. |
| April 18 2018 | BT announced organizational changes, bringing together BT Business and Public Sector and BT Wholesale and Ventures into a new unified division called BT Enterprise. |
| 2017 | BT Global Services reported £5bn revenue, £434m EBITDA, and £10m operating profit in the financial year. |
| September 6 2017 | BT extends its sponsorship deal with Scottish Rugby Union for an additional three years starting June 2018, retaining naming rights to BT Murrayfield Stadium and continuing as principal partner of the Scotland national team and Scotland 7s. |
| July 8 2017 | BT engaged McKinsey consultants for 'Project Novator' to review its businesses and potentially save hundreds of millions of pounds. |
| June 8 2017 | BT appointed KPMG as its new auditor, replacing PwC following a fraud scandal in Italy. |
| May 26 2017 | BT sponsors the British Urban Film Festival (BUFF), hosting all events including the Awards at the BT Tower, and plans to broadcast the ceremony on BT.com. |
| February 2017 | Ofcom conducted a review of the telecoms market, finding that BT's landline-only contracts provided poor value to customers and ordered BT to reduce their prices. |
| 2016 | Huawei implemented security measures to address UK national security concerns, establishing an oversight board that includes directors from GCHQ, the Cabinet Office, and the Home Office. |
| August 2016 | BT supports the Wayne Rooney Foundation's first fundraising event, a testimonial match between Manchester United F.C. and Everton F.C., which raised £1.2 million. BT Sport screened the match live and BT MyDonate was the official fundraising platform. |
| February 10 2016 | BT Global Services was awarded a five-year contract worth over £9 million to deliver computer and data centre services to Bromley London Borough Council, as part of a pan-London framework agreement. |
| January 2016 | BT Global Services agreed to a £100 million seven-year contract with the BBC to provide its broadcast network from April 2017, linking 21 UK broadcasting centres, local radio stations, and overseas bureaux. |
| January 29 2016 | BT completed the acquisition of EE, with Deutsche Telekom owning 12% of BT and Orange S.A. owning 4%. |
| January 27 2016 | BT and YouTube become joint headline sponsors of the Edinburgh International Television Festival in a three-year deal, covering the 41st TV Festival and its MacTaggart Lecture. |
| January 15 2016 | BT received approval from the Competition and Markets Authority to acquire EE. |
| April 14 2015 | BT completes its sponsorship portfolio with Scottish Rugby Union by investing an additional £3.6 million to become the shirt sponsor for Scotland national teams. |
| March 2015 | BT launched its 4G mobile service as BT Mobile, with CEO Gavin Patterson announcing plans to migrate all customers to the IP network by 2025. |
| February 5 2015 | BT confirmed its exclusive deal to buy EE for £12.5 billion, subject to regulatory approval, which would combine BT's 10 million retail customers with EE's 24.5 million mobile subscribers. |
| November 24 2014 | BT's shares rose significantly after announcing talks to potentially buy back O2 and acquire EE. |
| May 28 2014 | BT secures a £20 million four-year sponsorship deal with Scottish Rugby Union, which includes naming rights for Murrayfield Stadium, sponsoring the Scotland sevens team, and becoming principal sponsor of domestic league and cup competitions. |
| May 13 2014 | BT joins Sky, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media as founding partners of Internet Matters, a not-for-profit organization providing online safety advice for parents and children. |
| November 9 2013 | BT acquired exclusive rights to the Champions League and Europa League for £897m, effective from the 2015 season. |
| August 1 2013 | BT launched its first television channels, BT Sport, to compete with Sky Sports, following broadcast rights acquisition for Premier League matches. |
| July 29 2013 | BT partners with Scottish Rugby Union in a four-year sponsorship deal, becoming shirt sponsor for Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors starting August 2013. |
| June 7 2013 | British lawmakers publicly condemned BT for allowing Huawei and ZTE unregulated access to communications networks without ministerial oversight, expressing shock at the lack of government notification and security precautions. |
| March 2013 | BT was allocated 4G spectrum in the UK following an auction by Ofcom, paying £201.5m. |
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