{"id":1008086,"date":"2026-05-16T09:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008086"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:15:41","slug":"bt-revives-talks-for-international-business-sale-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/bt-revives-talks-for-international-business-sale-report\/","title":{"rendered":"BT revives talks for international business sale: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK&#8217;s BT is reviving talks over a possible sale or partnership of its struggling international business a year after halting negotiations, Sky News reported. <\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s largest telecom group plans to rekindle talks with companies such \u200cas AT&amp;T, \u2060Orange \u2060and Verizon , the report said. <\/p>\n<p>The sale will be part of BT&#8217;s strategy to refocus on the domestic UK market where it has been losing customers to smaller rivals, pushing CEO Allison Kirkby to optimize \u2060its resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK&#8217;s BT is reviving talks over a possible sale or partnership of its struggling international business a year after halting negotiations, Sky News reported. Britain&#8217;s largest telecom group plans to rekindle talks with companies such \u200cas AT&amp;T, \u2060Orange \u2060and Verizon , the report said. The sale will be part of BT&#8217;s strategy to refocus on the domestic UK market where it has been losing customers to smaller rivals, pushing CEO Allison Kirkby to optimize \u2060its resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008095,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008086\/revisions\/1008095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}