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[gt94sss2]

BT gave a Technology business briefing on 25 June 2019 which I thought may be of interest.

It covered their plans to merge their current fixed and mobile networks into one converged platform as they cope with bandwidth demand increasing in their fixed network within the next 5 years from 13Tbps to a forecast 50Tbps, with mobile data increasing from 0.5Tbps to 1.5Tbps.

The briefing also covered:

- Refarming spectrum for 5G;
- Moving BT services (billing etc) to the cloud; and
- their increasing use of AI and bots among other things sich as the use of Huawei in their network

Slides and a Webcast can be found at via https://www.btplc.com/Sharesandperformance/Financialreportingandnews/Quarterlyresults/index.htm

[kitz]

Thanks you.  The slides were quite interesting.  I notice you have to sign up for the webcasts.  Have you done so?

[gt94sss2]

Yes, I have - the presentation provides some additional detail not included in the slides.

Whenever BT put a webcast up, they ask people to register for it - including their annual general meetings and investor presentations. Anyone can register and all you receive is one email confirming the registration.

I usually just put None or N/A in the company field 

[kitz]

Thanks

[Alex Atkin UK]

Merging the mobile networks with the fixed network is certainly a curiosity.

As surely cell towers often use fibre so having them on the same network as FTTP would reduce the cost of rolling out FTTP as you could have an aggregation node at the tower itself?

Although I guess that would be a limited improvement if you have FTTC in the area anyway as there would already be a node nearby.

[aesmith]

As surely cell towers often use fibre so having them on the same network as FTTP would reduce the cost of rolling out FTTP as you could have an aggregation node at the tower itself

Cell towers aren't necessarily going to be the right place for aggregating end users.  For example outside densely urban areas they tend to be up on hills well away from anyone.  (On the other hand I'm aware that a lot of policy seems to make the sweeping assumption that everyone lives in cities)
I'd expect the towers to be on dedicate private circuit type connections in any case, not necessarily anything to do with the broadband distribution network.