{"id":972330,"date":"2025-11-07T07:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972330"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:22:41","slug":"uks-bt-says-fibre-demand-keeps-free-cash-target-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/07\/uks-bt-says-fibre-demand-keeps-free-cash-target-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s BT says fibre demand keeps free cash target in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s BT connected a record 1.1 million homes to its fibre network in the first half as its footprint grew to 20.3 million premises, helping keep its target of 2 billion pounds of free cash flow by March 2027 firmly in its sights. <\/p>\n<p>Demand for faster connections drove a 4% rise in core earnings at its Openreach networks arm, offsetting declines in its consumer, business and international units to result in a 4.13 billion pounds ($5.54 billion) outcome for the six months to end-September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s BT connected a record 1.1 million homes to its fibre network in the first half as its footprint grew to 20.3 million premises, helping keep its target of 2 billion pounds of free cash flow by March 2027 firmly in its sights. Demand for faster connections drove a 4% rise in core earnings at its Openreach networks arm, offsetting declines in its consumer, business and international units to result in a 4.13 billion pounds ($5.54 billion) outcome for the six months to end-September.<\/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-972330","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\/972330","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=972330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}