{"id":1023179,"date":"2026-07-24T07:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023179"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:06:17","slug":"bt-on-track-to-meet-fibre-build-target-and-annual-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/bt-on-track-to-meet-fibre-build-target-and-annual-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"BT on track to meet fibre build target, and annual guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BT, Britain&#8217;s biggest telecoms group, said it would meet its target of reaching 25 million British homes with its full fibre network by \u200cthe \u2060end \u2060of December, as it reported flat quarterly revenue and reiterated its annual guidance. <\/p>\n<p>CEO Allison Kirkby called it a &#8220;solid start&#8221; to the year, a quarter during which she announced a joint venture with \u2060Verizon to combine \u200cthe pair&#8217;s international enterprise operations, allowing BT to fully focus \u2060on its home UK market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BT, Britain&#8217;s biggest telecoms group, said it would meet its target of reaching 25 million British homes with its full fibre network by \u200cthe \u2060end \u2060of December, as it reported flat quarterly revenue and reiterated its annual guidance. CEO Allison Kirkby called it a &#8220;solid start&#8221; to the year, a quarter during which she announced a joint venture with \u2060Verizon to combine \u200cthe pair&#8217;s international enterprise operations, allowing BT to fully focus \u2060on its home UK market.<\/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-1023179","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\/1023179","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=1023179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023186,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023179\/revisions\/1023186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}