Bt Share Discussion Threads

[diku] 13/4/2022 21:25

Yes it is getting very choppy...what caused the 10am start of going down the stairs and it closed at lows...

[wendsworth] 13/4/2022 17:51

fhmktg: Point taken! BTA is becoming a difficult share price to 'read'. What's with the 4.7p fall today? Is developing a tendency to go down on the days the market doesn't and vice versa! Not helpful to one's 'crystal balls' methinks !

[netcurtains] 13/4/2022 10:58

NASDAQ FUTURES UP 0.9%, S&P 500 E-MINI FUTURES UP 0.7% AND DOW FUTURES UP 0.6%

[diku] 12/4/2022 20:32

Maybe VOD is a monkey...debt ridden...

Rang Talk Talk it took 35mins to answer the phone...

[1224saj] 12/4/2022 15:49

Had to sell my Talk Talk shares last year when they took it private. Could not hold them in my SIPP and did not have the funds to buy them. Sold them at 0.98 they are now saying worth 2.61 to Vodafone on a bid? Another carve up by the billionaires, when is enough for these people???

[waldron] 08/4/2022 08:48

proactive



Philip Whiterow

14:46 Thu 07 Apr 2022


BT faces strike despite £1,500 pay award

The pay rise will cost the telecoms giant around £90mln
BT
Philip Jansen

BT Group is facing a strike call even though it awarded a £1,500 pay rise to 58,000 of its staff.

Last week, the Communications Workers Union (CWU) rejected an offer of £1,200 for 40,000 of its members describing it as a relative pay cut, adding today that it would now ballot over strike action.

"We have no choice now but to immediately prepare for a statutory industrial action ballot," it said in a tweet.

BT described the pay rise as its biggest pay round for frontline employees in 20 years.

Workers at BT, Openreach, Plusnet and EE frontline will get the award, which the telecoms group said was a reward for keeping the country connected during the pandemic.

The FTSE 100 group said the rise worked out at around an 8% increase for some staff and over 3% for the highest-paid.

BT added the award, which will cost it around £90mln, would be backdated to 1 April to offset rises in a host of utility bills and other household costs.

Philip Jansen, BT’s chief executive said: “We know that the cost of living continues to rise and by making this award, we’re ensuring that our lower-paid workers will benefit most and as soon as possible.”

BT paid a bonus of £1,500 to its frontline staff (retail stores and call centres) last year in the form of shares and a cash payment of £1,000.

The company employs around 100,000 people in total with 83,000 of these in the UK.

Tesco meanwhile has handed out a pay rise for its store and distribution centre staff worth around 5.8%, with hourly rates rising to £10.10 an hour from £9.55.

Attracting (and retaining) staff since the reopening of the economy after the pandemic is proving a nightmare for many businesses in the retail, hospitality and services industries.

Airlines and airports have been crippled this week by staff shortages and absences due to Covid.

Recruiter Robert Walters said that among white-collar staff pay rises of 20% are the norm, with a shortage of qualified professional people everywhere.

The group reported profits up 265% today with fee income in Europe up by 35%.

Shares in BT rose 2.3% to 190.5p while Robert Walters rose 2.4% to 694p.

[dipso] 07/4/2022 14:40

BT to hand GBP1,500 pay increase to 58,000 workers

[fhmktg] 07/4/2022 10:54

Black rock seeing potential upsides?

[1224saj] 06/4/2022 17:49

They remember the days when the tanks rolled into Prague by another aggressor

[misca2] 06/4/2022 16:53

Telcos could save up to 70% power usage by optimising 5G hardware

By Yanitsa Boyadzhieva

Apr 6, 2022


Network operators need to optimise hardware to reduce power consumption and associated costs, says ABI Research

There are various ways to tackle increasing energy usage, as rollouts of 5G accelerate

The analyst company advises telcos to deploy the new generation of equipment and embrace efficient cooling technology

Like the world as a whole, the mobile industry is on a mission to reduce its environmental footprint

Telecoms operators need to embrace new approaches to optimise the hardware they use if they are to fulfil a goal of significantly decreasing their energy consumption and associated costs, as power-hungry 5G networks reach scale in developed markets.


This is the main point made in a new report from research company ABI Research, which suggests if operators act wisely and optimise the hardware used in their systems, this will bring about a decline in power consumption of up to 70% and, therefore, will reduce energy bills.


Despite 5G networks being 90% more energy efficient than 4G in terms of power consumption per unit of traffic, they are very likely to cause “a dramatic increase in energy consumption” due to the implementation of massive MIMO and the level of network densification.


ABI Research has calculated that a 5G base station needs three times more energy to provide the same coverage as a 4G network, which, in turn, results in high energy costs and capital expenditure for operators.


“5G energy consumption depends on radio configuration, hardware and traffic load, and over 70% of the consumed energy is in the radio access network (RAN),” said Fei Liu, 5G & Mobile Network Infrastructure Industry Analyst at ABI Research. “A 5G RAN consumes up to 2.7 kilowatts of power with 64T64R mMIMO configurations in a typical condition, whereas an LTE radio consumes about 0.8 kilowatts.”


The dominant contributors to power consumption are power amplifiers (PAs), baseband process modules, digital intermediate frequency (DIF) and transceivers. The analyst company recommends the use of gallium nitride (GaN) for mMIMO, which can result in more than 50% more power efficiency and subsequently reduce power usage and operational costs.


Another suggestion is the deployment of liquid-cooled sites which are 30% lighter and half the size of standard active air conditioning units. A further benefit is that they don’t require any maintenance, which equates to “significant savings”, said Liu.


Telcos can also make use of the new generation of chipsets, which are estimated to save between 30-70% in energy savings. “New architecture can also reduce energy consumption, improve coverage, and enhance performance”, she added.


Network vendors are also investing in other “innovative221; hardware technologies such as new materials and designs to improve energy efficiency. “Operators should deploy the new generation of equipment and adopt efficient cooling technology to reduce power consumption at the equipment level,” Liu advised.


In recent years, a number of telcos has been considering ways to combat climate change through cutting down greenhouse gas emissions and being more energy efficient. Reducing costs is also a strong driving force.


Some of the moves telcos have already taken include switching to 100% renewable energy sources, embracing circular economies across their operations and committing to industry-wide goals outlined by ITU, GeSI, GSMA and SBTi. (See ICT industry agrees landmark science-based pathway to reach net zero emissions.)

- Yanitsa Boyadzhieva, Deputy Editor, Teleco

[wendsworth] 06/4/2022 15:29

Czeckoslovakia,a NATO country,sending tank to Ukraine could well spook the markets?

[wendsworth] 05/4/2022 16:46

jubberjim: Eminently sensible in my view. Just have a view that the market is overdue 'A Bad Day at Black Rock'. Bon chance mon ami.

[jubberjim] 05/4/2022 12:06

Having a few thoughts

What do you prioritise

Utility bills
Mobile phone bills

Think will see limited upwards movement as people concentrate on essentials

Have reduced holding as a consequence still long but bit more comfortable with cash

Something to bear in mind

Good luck everyone

[porsche1945] 31/3/2022 18:08

@dogfart. hope you bought you muppet as its down another 3pc today hahaha. Just sold my crowdstrike for a 51k usd profit..in 22 months hold period.....Ukraine crisis not bad for all stocks. Love it. For those of you with a brain who actually want to make some real money check out Upstart, should hit 280 bucks by end of year and great biz throwing off cash with tech all banks and insurers will need. I own ( lots ) of it.

[wendsworth] 31/3/2022 14:05

Dogface : Not quite yet. Geopolitical together with general economic and market indicators point to prudence being the better part of valour. There is value out there but is it in BT at current SP?

[dogface] 31/3/2022 11:25

Time to buy! Porsche is ranting again

[porsche1945] 31/3/2022 11:02

Telecoms are all fxcked. Biz model was over 10 years ago. A good short has to be Vod, imminent dividend cut and balance sheet going into out of control territory, 44 billion in debt. BT little better, credit junkie company, over regulated and basically a giant pension deficit with a fone company attached. Buy US growth.

[stansmith3] 26/3/2022 12:34

get at least a cat5e, that should cover all needs

[diku] 26/3/2022 10:40

Some of you BT experts here...is cat5 or cat6 cable good for fibre wifi broadband router?...

[nige co] 25/3/2022 11:58

George, will you still be saying the same thing when the BT share price hits £3 within the next few years?

[arees1969] 24/3/2022 17:07

What was the point of your post, don't think it's based on anything,

[george stobart] 24/3/2022 14:54

BT is defaulted, lets face it. We should all Sell now and move on with our lives