The Whistleblower is a widely acclaimed thriller film that was released in the year 2010. It was directed by Larysa Kondracki and had the likes of Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Benedict Cumberbatch and many more in its star cast. Let's now take you through the main star cast of the movie in some detail.
Rachel Weisz plays the role of a police officer named Kathryn Bolkovac from Lincoln, Nebraska, US, in the movie. She volunteers to work with the UN International Police.
Born on March 7, 1970 in London, UK, Rachel Weisz is a former fashion model and a theatre and film actress who is a citizen of both US and UK. She started her acting career during the early 90s at the Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Later on she went on to work in the television industry, playing important roles in series like Scarlet and Black, Inspector Morse and the TV film Advocates II. Rachel made her film debut in the year 1994 with the science fiction film Death Machine. Her Hollywood debut happened through the action movie Chain Reaction in the year 1996, in which she played an important role opposite Morgan Freeman and Keanu Reeves. Thereafter, she went on to play many critically acclaimed roles in movies like The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), Youth (2015), The Lobster (2015) and more.
She plays the role of the head of the HRC (Human Rights Commission), Madeleine Rees in the movie and helps Kathryn Bolkovac in her investigation.
Born on January 30, 1937, Vanessa Redgrave is an actress of English origin who has played many significant television and film roles. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in the year 2003 and also received BAFTA Fellowship in 2010. Vanessa gained plenty of recognition in the year 1961 after she played the role of Rosalind in 'As You Like It' - A production of Royal Shakespeare Company. Thereafter, she starred in over 35 different productions in Broadway and London's West End.
Talking about her screen performances, Vanessa Redgrave has appeared in over 80 films and has received Oscar nominations six times, winning the Academy Award for her performance as the best supporting actress in the 1977 movie Julia. Her other Oscar nominations came for the movies Morgan: a Suitable Case for Treatment (Year 1956), Isadora (Year 1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (Year 1971), the Bostonians (Year 1984) and Howard's End (Year 1992). Some of her other popular movies are the likes of the Butler (Year 2013), Coriolanus (Year 2011), Atonement (Year 2007), Mission Impossible (Year 1996), Prick up Your Ears (Year 1987), Modelled on the Orient Express (Year 1974) and many more.
Well, who doesn't know Monica Bellucci! She has essayed many important and critically acclaimed roles in her long spanning career in Hollywood.
Monica was born on September 30, 1964 in Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy. She originally studied law at the University of Perugia, but took up modelling assignments side-by-side for earning money for her education. This is what led her into the modelling industry. Soon, she made a move to Milan, Europe's important fashion center and enrolled herself into the Elite Model Management. After enjoying great success in the modelling industry, Monica made her television debut in the year 1990.
Monica Bellucci's film career started during the early 90s with a minor role in the movie La Riffa (1991) and then the American film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Thereafter, she appeared in many American films like The aAartment (1996) for which she earned a nomination for Cesar Award for Best supporting actress, Malena (2000), Under Suspicion (2000), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), Irreversible (2002), Remember Me, My Love (2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), Enter the Matrix (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Passion of the Christ (2004), The Whistleblower (2010), Spectre (2015) and many more.
David plays the role of Peter Ward, an internal affairs specialist in the movie The Whistleblower. He's shown at his government-thriller best in the form of an internal affairs agent.
David's full name is David Russell Strathairn, and he was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California. Some of his notable performances have come in the movies like Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), in which he plays the role of a journalist named Edward R Murrow. He was nominated for an Academy award for the Best Actor for this movie. Then there was the role of deputy director Noah Vosen in the Bourne ultimatum (2007) and the Bourne Legacy (2012). Other important movies done by him include Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), Lovesick (1983), Silkwood (1983), Iceman (1984), The Brother from Another Planet (1984), When Nature Calls (1985), At Close Range (1986), City of Hope (1991), Big Girls Don't Cry, They Get Even (1992), A League of Their Own (1992), The Firm (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), LA Confidential (1997), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), Twisted (2004), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Trumbo (2007), The Whistleblower (2010), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), Godzilla (2014) and many more.
His full name is Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, and he was born on July 19, 1976 in London, UK. He was raised in London and attended the Brambletye School and Harrow School there. Later on, he graduated from the University of Manchester and pursued further education at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He obtained a Master of Arts degree in classical acting from the latter.
Benedict has worked in theatre, television, movies as well as radio. His big break in the movie industry came in the year 2004 when he was chosen to play the role of Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking. His role as the Sherlock Holmes in the UK television series Sherlock (2010) made him a household name there. Year 2011 saw Benedict appearing in two different Oscar-nominated movies – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and War Horse (2011). He followed these important roles with more important roles in other movies like the science fiction film Star Trek into Darkness (2013), The Fifth Estate (2013), August Osage County (2013) and the Oscar-winning movie 12 Years a Slave (2013). Year 2014 saw him playing the role of Alan Turing in the popular film The Imitation Game. This movie also got him an Academy Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe for the best actor in a leading role.


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We are expecting dip into colder weather this coming week, along with SNOW!!!


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British multinational telecommunications holding company
Trade name
Public limited company
Traded as
LSE: BT.A
OTC Pink: BTGOF
FTSE 100 Component
Electric Telegraph Company
General Post Office
Post Office Telecommunications
18 June 1846; 175 years ago (1846-06-18)
(foundation of the Electric Telegraph Company)
1 January 1912; 110 years ago (1912-01-01)
(National Telephone Company system take-over under the General Post Office)
1 October 1969; 52 years ago (1969-10-01)
(as a public corporation under the Post Office)
(as a public corporation under the British Telecom brand)
1 April 1984; 37 years ago (1984-04-01)
(as a private company)
One Braham, Braham Street,
Adam Crozier
(Chairman)
Philip Jansen
(Chief Executive)
Simon Lowth
(Group Finance Director)
Fixed-line telephony
Mobile telephony
Broadband internet
Fibre-optic communication
Digital television
IT and network services
Home security
Telecommunications equipment
£22.905 billion (2020)[1]
Operating income
£3.283 billion (2020)[1]
Net income
105,300 (2020)[1]
Business and Public Sector
Global Services
Wholesale and Ventures
Openreach
BT Ireland
BT Italia
www.bt.com/about
BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broadband and mobile services in the UK, and also provides subscription television and IT services.[2]
BT's origins date back to the founding in 1846 of the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, which developed a nationwide communications network. BT Group as it came to be started in 1912, when the General Post Office, a government department, took over the system of the National Telephone Company[3] becoming the monopoly telecoms supplier in the United Kingdom. The Post Office Act of 1969 led to the GPO becoming a public corporation.[4] The British Telecom brand was introduced in 1980, and became independent of the Post Office in 1981, officially trading under the name. British Telecommunications was privatised in 1984, becoming British Telecommunications plc, with some 50 percent of its shares sold to investors. The Government sold its remaining stake in further share sales in 1991 and 1993. BT is a Royal Warrant holder of the British Royal Family and has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
BT controls a number of large subsidiaries. BT Global Services division supplies telecoms services to corporate and government customers worldwide,[5] and its BT Consumer division supplies telephony, broadband, and subscription television services in the United Kingdom to around 18 million customers.[6]
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1.1 Formation of British Telecom
1.2 Privatisation
1.3 BT's attempted global alliances
1.3.1 MCI
1.3.2 AT&T
1.4 BT Ireland
1.5 2001 debt crisis
1.6 Europe's largest rights issue
1.7 Sale of Yell Group and demerger of O2
1.8 Aftermath
1.9 2007 to 2012
1.10 2013 to present
2 Operations
3 Corporate affairs
3.1 Buildings and facilities
3.1.1 Headquarters
3.1.2 Buildings and stations
3.1.3 Telecommunications towers
3.1.4 Other
3.2 Divisions
3.2.1 Customer facing
3.2.2 Internal services
3.3 Corporate governance
3.4 Pension fund
3.5 Sponsorships
3.6 Historical financial performance
3.6.1 2008–present
3.6.2 1992–2007
4 Controversies
4.1 World Wide Web hyperlink patent
4.2 Behavioural targeting
4.3 Huawei infrastructure access
4.4 Alleged complicity with drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia
4.5 Overcharging
4.6 Bidding rules violation
5 See also
7 Further reading
A number of privately owned telegraph companies operated in Britain from 1846 onwards. Among them were:[7]
British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
British Telegraph Company
London District Telegraph Company
United Kingdom Telegraph Company
The Telegraph Act 1868 passed the control of all these to the newly formed GPO (General Post Office)'s Postal Telegraphs Department.[8]
With the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 the GPO began to provide telephone services from some of its telegraph exchanges. In 1882 the Postmaster-General, Henry Fawcett started to issue licences to operate a telephone service to private businesses and the telephone system grew under the GPO in some areas and private ownership in others. The GPO's main competitor, the National Telephone Company, emerged in this market by absorbing other private telephone companies, prior to its absorption into the GPO in 1912.[9]
The trunk network was unified under GPO control in 1896 and the local distribution network in 1912. A few municipally owned services remained outside of GPO control. These were Kingston upon Hull, Portsmouth and Guernsey. Hull still retains an independent operator, Kingston Communications, though it is no longer municipally controlled.[10]
In 1969 the GPO, a government department, became the Post Office, a nationalised industry separate from government. Post Office Telecommunications was one of the divisions.[11]
Formation of British Telecom
British Telecom logo used from 1980–1991
The British Telecom brand was introduced in 1980. On 1 October 1981, this became the official name of Post Office Telecommunications, which became a state-owned corporation independent of the Post Office under the provisions of the British Telecommunications Act 1981. In 1982 BT's monopoly on telecommunications was broken with the granting of a licence to Mercury Communications.[12]
On 19 July 1982, the Government announced its intention to sell shares in British Telecom to the public. On 1 April 1984, British Telecommunications was incorporated as a public limited company (plc) in anticipation of the passing of the Telecommunications Bill. This Bill received Royal Assent on 12 April, and the transfer to British Telecommunications plc from British Telecom as a statutory corporation of its business, its property, its rights and liabilities took place on 6 August 1984.[13]
Initially all shares in the new plc were owned by the Government. In November 1984, 50.2% of the new company was offered for sale to the public and employees. Shares were listed in London, New York, and Toronto and the first day of trading on was 3 December 1984. The Government sold half its remaining interest in December 1991 and the other half in July 1993. In July 1997, the new Labour Government relinquished its Special Share ("Golden Share"), retained at the time of the flotation, which had effectively given it the power to block a takeover of the company, and to appoint two non-executive directors to the Board.[14]
The company changed its trading name to "BT" on 2 April 1991. In 1996 Peter Bonfield was appointed CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, promising a "rollercoaster ride".[15]
In the 1990s, BT entered the Irish telecommunications market through a joint venture with the Electricity Supply Board, the Irish state owned power provider. This venture, entitled Ocean, found its main success through the launch of Ireland's first subscription-free dial-up ISP, oceanfree.net. As a telecoms company it found much less success, mainly targeting corporate customers. BT acquired 100% of this venture in 1999.[16]
BT's attempted global alliances
In June 1994 BT and MCI Communications launched Concert Communications Services which was a $1 billion joint venture between the two companies. Its aim was to build a network which would provide easy global connectivity to multinational corporations.[17]
This alliance progressed further on 3 November 1996 when the two companies announced that they had agreed to a merger, creating a global telecommunications company called Concert plc. The proposal gained approval from the European Commission, the US Department of Justice, and the US Federal Communications Commission and looked set to proceed.[18]
However, in light of pressure from investors reacting to the slide in BT's share price on the London Stock Exchange, BT reduced its bid price for MCI, releasing MCI from its exclusivity clause and allowing it to speak to other interested parties.[19] On 1 October 1997, Worldcom made a rival bid for MCI which was followed by a counter-bid from GTE.[20]
BT sold its stake in MCI to Worldcom in 1998 for £4,159 million. As part of the deal, BT also bought out from MCI its 24.9% interest in Concert Communications, thereby making Concert a wholly owned part of BT.[21]
The reaction to the failure of the deal in the City of London was critical of then Chairman Iain Vallance and CEO Peter Bonfield, and the lack of confidence from the failed merger led to their removal.[22]
As BT now owned Concert, and still wanted access to the North American market, it needed a new partner. An AT&T/BT option had been mooted in the past, but stopped on regulatory grounds due to their individual virtual monopolies in their home markets. By 1996, this had receded to the point where a deal was possible and a deal was consummated in 1998.[23]
At its height, the Concert managed network was extensive. Although Concert continued signing customers, its rate of revenue growth slowed, so that in 1999 David Dorman was made CEO with a brief to revive it.[24]
In late 2000 the BT and AT&T boards fell-out – partly due to each partner's excess debt, and the resulting board room clear-outs – partly due to Concert's extensive annual losses. AT&T recognized that Concert was a threat to its ambitions if left intact, and so negotiated a deal where Concert was split in two in 2001: North America and Eastern Asia went to AT&T, the rest of the world and $400M to BT. BT's remaining Concert assets were merged into its BT Ignite, later BT Global Services group.[25]
BT Ireland
In 2000, BT acquired Esat Telecom Group plc, and all its subsidiary companies, and Ireland On Line.[19] It also purchased Telenor's minority shareholding in Esat Digifone. The Esat Telecom Group was split in two with the landline and internet operations were combining with Ocean to become part of BT Ignite.[26] Esat Group was renamed Esat BT in July 2002, and eventually BT Ireland in April 2005. Esat Digifone became part of BT Wireless, before being spun off into a separate independent company mmo2 plc (now Telefónica Europe). EsatBT installed the first DSL lines in Ireland, to try and compete heavily with former state telecoms company Eircom and operate one exchange, in Limerick.[27]
2001 debt crisis
By 2001, BT had a debt of £30 billion, much of which was acquired during the bidding round for the 3rd generation mobile telephony (commonly known as 3G) licences.[28] It had also failed in its series of proposed global mergers, and the funds flowing from its then virtual monopoly of the UK market place had been largely removed. It was also headed by two executives who had little support from the London Stock Exchange, particularly in light of a 60% drop in share price in sixteen months.[29]
Philip Hampton joined as CFO, and in April 2001 Sir Iain Vallance was replaced as Chairman by recognised turn around expert Sir Christopher Bland.[30]
Europe's largest rights issue
In May 2001 BT carried out corporate Europe's largest ever rights issue, allowing it to raise £5.9 billion.[31] A few days before, it sold stakes in Japan Telecom, in mobile operator J-Phone Communications, and in Airtel of India to Vodafone.[32]
Sale of Yell Group and demerger of O2
In June 2001 BT's directory business was sold as Yell Group to a combination of private equity firms Apax Partners and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst for £2.1 billion.[33]
A demerger followed in November 2001, when the former mobile telecommunications business of BT, BT Cellnet, was hived off as a separate business named "mmO2".[34] This included BT owned or operated networks in other countries, including BT Cellnet (UK), Esat Digifone (Ireland), and Viag Interkom (Germany). All networks now owned or operated by mmO2 (except Manx Telecom) were renamed as O2. The de-merger was accomplished via a share-swap, all British Telecommunications plc shareholders received one mmO2 plc and one BT Group plc (of which British Telecommunications is now a wholly owned subsidiary) share for each share they owned. British Telecommunications plc was de-listed on 16 November, and the two new companies started trading on 19 November.[35]
At the end of the series of sales, in October 2001 Sir Peter Bonfield resigned,[36] and was replaced by former Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen.[37]
During Bonfield's tenure the share price went from £4 to £15, and back again to £5.[15] Bonfield's salary to 31 March 2001 was a basic of £780,000 (increasing to £820,000) plus a £481,000 bonus and £50,000 of other benefits including pension. He also received a deferred bonus, payable in shares three years' later, of £481,000, and additional bonuses of £3.3 million.[38]
mmO2 plc was replaced by O2 plc in a further share-swap in 2005, and subsequently bought in an agreed takeover by Telefónica for £18 billion and delisted.[39] In 2004, BT launched Consult 21, a consultation organisation that was to aid BT 21CN in the eventual conversion to digital telephony.[40]
In 2004, BT was awarded the contract to deliver and manage N3, a secure and fast broadband network for the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) program, on behalf of the English National Health Service (NHS).[41]
In 2005 BT made a number of acquisitions. In February 2005, BT acquired Infonet (now re-branded BT Infonet), a large telecoms company based in El Segundo, California, giving BT access to new geographies. It also acquired the Italian company Albacom. Then in April 2005, it bought Radianz from Reuters (now rebranded as BT Radianz), which expanded BT's coverage and provided BT with more buying power in certain countries.[42]
In August 2006, BT acquired online electrical retailer Dabs.com for £30.6 million.[43] The BT Home Hub manufactured by Inventel was also launched in June 2006.[44]
In October 2006, BT confirmed that it would be investing 75% of its total capital spending, put at £10 billion over five years, in its new Internet Protocol (IP) based 21st century network (21CN). Annual savings of £1 billion per annum were expected when the transition to the new network was to have been completed in 2010, with over 50% of its customers to have been transferred by 2008. That month the first customers on to 21CN was successfully tested at Adastral Park in Suffolk.[45]
In January 2007, BT acquired Sheffield-based ISP, PlusNet plc, adding 200,000 customers. BT stated that PlusNet will continue to operate separately out of its Sheffield head-office.[46] On 1 February 2007, BT announced agreed terms to acquire International Network Services Inc. (INS), an international provider of IT consultancy and software.[47]
In February 2007, Sir Michael Rake succeeded Sir Christopher Bland.[48] In April that year, they acquired COMSAT International,[49] followed in October by the acquisition of Lynx Technology.[50]
BT acquired Wire One Communications in June 2008 and folded the company into "BT Conferencing", its existing conferencing unit, as a new video business unit[51] In July 2008, BT acquired the online business directory firm Ufindus for £20 million in order to expand its position in the local information market in GB.[52] On 28 July 2008, BT acquired Ribbit, of Mountain View, California, "Silicon Valley's First Phone Company". Ribbit provides Adobe Flash/Flex APIs, allowing web developers to incorporate telephony features into their software as a service (SaaS) applications.[53]
In the early days of its fibre broadband rollout, BT said it would deliver fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) to around 25% of the Country, with the rest catered for by the slower fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), which uses copper wiring to deliver the final stretch of the connection. In 2014, with less than 0.7% of the company's fibre network being FTTP, BT dropped the 25% target, saying that it was "far less relevant today" because of improvements made to the headline speed of FTTC, which had doubled to 80Mbit/s since its fibre broadband rollout was first announced.[54] To supplement FTTC, BT offered an 'FTTP on Demand' product.[55] In January 2015, BT stopped taking orders for the on-demand product.[56]
On 1 April 2009, BT Engage IT was created from the merger of two previous BT acquisitions, Lynx Technology and Basilica. Apart from the name change not much else changed in operations for another 12 months.[57] On 14 May 2009, BT said it was cutting up to 15,000 jobs in the coming year after it announced its results for the year to 31 March 2009.[58] Then in July 2009, BT offered workers a long holiday for an up front sum of 25% of their annual wage or a one-off payment of £1000 if they agree to go part-time.[59]
On 6 April 2011, BT launched the first online not-for-profit fundraising service for UK charities called BT MyDonate as part of its investment to the community. The service will pass on 100% of all donations made through the site to the charity, and unlike other services which take a proportion as commission and charge charities for using their services, BT will only pass on credit/debit card charges for each donation. The service allows people to register to give money to charity or collect fundraising donations. BT developed MyDonate with the support of Cancer Research UK, Changing Faces, KidsOut, NSPCC and Women's Aid.[60][61]
BT logo used from 2003–2019
In March 2013, BT was allocated 4G spectrum in the UK following an auction and assignment by Ofcom, after paying £201.5m.[62]
On 1 August 2013, BT launched its first television channels, BT Sport, to compete with rival broadcaster Sky Sports.[63] Plans for the channels' launch came about when it was announced in June 2012 that BT had been awarded a package of broadcast rights for the Premier League from the 2013–14 to 2015–16 season, broadcasting 38 matches from each season.[64] In February 2013, BT acquired ESPN Inc.'s UK and Ireland TV channels, continuing its expansion into sports broadcasting.[65] ESPN America and ESPN Classic were both closed, while ESPN continued to be operated by BT. On 9 November 2013, BT announced it had acquired exclusive rights to the Champions League and Europa League for £897m, from the 2015 season, with some free games remaining including both finals.[66]
On 1 November 2014, BT created a new central business services (CBS) organisation to provide customer services and improve operational efficiency levels.[67]
On 24 November 2014, shares in BT rose considerably on the announcement that the company was in talks to buy back O2, while at the same time confirmed it was also in talks to acquire EE.[68] BT subsequently entered into exclusive talks to buy EE for £12.5 billion on 15 December 2014[69][70] and confirmed on 5 February 2015, subject to regulatory approval. The deal will combine BT's 10 million retail customers and EE's 24.5 million direct mobile subscribers. Deutsche Telekom will own 12% of BT, while Orange S.A. will own 4%.[71]
In March 2015, launched a 4G service as BT Mobile[72] BT Group CEO Gavin Patterson announced that BT plans to migrate all of its customers onto the IP network by 2025, switching off the company's ISDN network.[73]
On 15 January 2016, BT received final unconditional approval by the Competition and Markets Authority to acquire EE.[74] The deal was officially completed on 29 January 2016 with Deutsche Telekom now owning 12% of BT, while Orange S.A. own 4%.[75]
On 1 February 2016, BT announced a new organisational structure that will take effect from April 2016 following the successful acquisition of EE. The EE brand, network and high street stores will be retained and will become a second consumer division, operating alongside BT Consumer. It will serve customers with mobile services, broadband and TV and will continue to deliver the Emergency Services Network contract which was awarded to EE in late 2015. There will be a new BT Business and Public Sector division that will have around £5bn of revenues and will serve small and large businesses as well as the public sector in the UK and Ireland. It will comprise the existing BT Business division along with EE's business division and those parts of BT Global Services that are UK focused. There will also be another new division; BT Wholesale and Ventures that will comprise the existing BT Wholesale division along with EE's MVNO business as well as some specialist businesses such as Fleet, Payphones and Directories. Gerry McQuade, currently Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Business at EE, will be its CEO.[76][77][78]
On 8 June 2017, BT appointed KPMG as its new auditor to replace PwC in the wake of the fraud scandal in Italy that triggered a major profit warning earlier that year.[79] Also in of that year, KPMG fired six US employees over a scandal that calls into question efforts to ensure that public company accounts are being properly scrutinised.[80]
On 8 July 2017, The Daily Telegraph reported that BT "has called in consultants from McKinsey to conduct a review of its businesses in the hope of saving hundreds of millions of pounds per year. The work, dubbed 'Project Novator', is understood to include a potential merger of BT's struggling global services corporate networking and IT unit with its business and public sector division".[81]
On 28 July 2017, BT announced organisational changes to "simplify its operating model, strengthen accountabilities and accelerate its transformation" and involves bringing together its BT Consumer and EE divisions into a new unified BT Consumer division that will operate across three brands – BT, EE and Plusnet.[82][83][84][85] It will take effect from 1 April 2018.[86]
On 18 April 2018, BT announced further organisational changes following unification of its BT Consumer and EE divisions, and involves bringing together its BT Business and Public Sector and BT Wholesale and Ventures divisions into a new unified division known as BT Enterprise. It will also include BT's Ventures business which "acts as an incubator for potential new growth areas of the company" and will report as a single unit from 1 October 2018.[87][88][89][90]
In June 2021, the French telecommunications company, Altice acquired a 12% stake in BT,[91] increasing that stake to 18% in December 2021.[92]
The Adastral Park campus at Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, the principal site of BT Research.
BT Group is a holding company; the majority of its businesses and assets are held by its wholly owned subsidiary British Telecommunications plc.[93] BT's businesses are operated under special government regulation by the British telecoms regulator Ofcom (formerly Oftel). BT has been found to have significant market power in some markets following market reviews by Ofcom. In these markets, BT is required to comply with additional obligations such as meeting reasonable requests to supply services and not to discriminate.[94]
BT runs the telephone exchanges, trunk network and local loop connections for the vast majority of British fixed-line telephones. Currently BT is responsible for approximately 28 million telephone lines in GB. Apart from KCOM Group, which serves Kingston upon Hull, BT is the only UK telecoms operator to have a Universal service Obligation, (USO) which means it must provide a fixed telephone line to any address in the UK. It is also obliged to provide public call boxes.[95]
As well as continuing to provide service in those traditional areas in which BT has an obligation to provide services or is closely regulated, BT has expanded into more profitable products and services where there is less regulation. These are principally, broadband internet service and bespoke solutions in telecommunications and information technology.[96]
See also: Category:British Telecom buildings and structures
As BT operates in around 180 countries, it owns and leases a range of buildings and facilities in the UK and around the world. In 2001, it sold some of its UK property portfolio for £2.38 billion to Telereal Trillium in a 30-year leaseback. The deal included 6,700 properties and contributed towards alleviating its debt at the time, with the main advantage being flexibility as it allows BT to vacate property over time, so as to adapt to changing operational requirements.[97]
The BT Centre was completed in 1985.
Until December 2021, BT Group's world headquarters and registered office was the BT Centre, a 10-storey office building at 81 Newgate Street in the City of London, opposite St. Paul's tube station. [98] In November 2021 BT relocated to new headquarters at One Braham, a brand new 18-storey building completed earlier in 2021.[99]
Some of its UK buildings and stations are:
Adastral Park – headquarters of BT Labs in Suffolk
Baynard House – building in City of London
BT Riverside Tower – headquarters of BT Northern Ireland in Belfast
BT Tower – building in Swansea
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station – satellite earth station in Cornwall
Guardian telephone exchange – telephone exchange in Manchester
Madley Communications Centre – satellite earth station in Herefordshire
National Network Management Centre – network operations centre in Shropshire
Stadium House – building in Cardiff
Telecommunications towers
Main articles: Telecommunications towers in the United Kingdom and British Telecom microwave network
BT remains one of the largest owners of telecommunications towers in the UK and were a major node in its microwave network. Its BT Tower in London is notable for numerous reasons such as being the tallest building in the UK from its construction in the 1960s until the early 1980s, its revolving restaurant at the top known as 'Top of the Tower' in operation through the late 1960s and 1970s, and remains one of the UK's most important communications nerve centres, the heart of a vast broadcasting and communications network. It carries approximately 95% of the UK's TV content, including live broadcasts and 99% of all live football games as well as pioneering the first international HD, 3D and 4K television transmissions. It serves media production and distribution customers around the world and as part of the Things Connected Network launched in London, it became the highest building in the world to host an Internet of things (IoT) base station in September 2016.[100][101] Some of its towers are:
BT Tower in London
BT Tower in Birmingham
Charwelton BT Tower in Northamptonshire
Heaton Park BT Tower in Manchester
Morborne Hill BT Tower in Cambridgeshire
Purdown BT Tower in Bristol
Pye Green BT Tower in Staffordshire
Stokenchurch BT Tower in Buckinghamshire
Sutton Common BT Tower in Cheshire
Tinshill BT Tower in West Yorkshire
Tolsford Hill BT Tower in Kent
Turners Hill BT Tower in West Midlands
Wotton-under-Edge BT Tower in Gloucestershire
Zouches Farm in Bedfordshire
Some of its other UK facilities are:
Red telephone box – original telephone boxes
KX telephone boxes – successor to the red telephone boxes
LinkUK – modern kiosks replacing existing telephone boxes with a range of free services
TAT-14 – 14th consortium transatlantic telecommunications cable system
BT Group is organised into the following divisions:[93]
BT Consumer – provides retail telecoms services to consumers in the UK including:
BT Broadband
BT Superfast Fibre
BT TV
BT Sport
BT Mobile
BT Wi-fi
BT One Phone
Plusnet - internet service provider, provides mobile and fixed communications services to consumers in the UK
EE – mobile network operator, provides mobile and fixed communications services to consumers in the UK
BT Business and Public Sector – provides retail telecoms and IT services to businesses and the public sector in the UK and Ireland
BT Global Services – provides telecoms and IT services to multinationals
BT Wholesale and Ventures – provides network products and services to communications providers (CPs), voice services to UK customers via 999, 118 500 and Next Generation Text Service, services for media companies and broadcasters and its ventures side encompasses a portfolio of businesses offering a range of products and services
Openreach – fenced-off wholesale division, established in 2005 following a review by Ofcom and commenced operations in 2006, employing 25,000 engineers previously employed by BT. Its purpose is to ensure that other communications providers have the same operational conditions as BT, and is responsible for the provision and repair in the "last mile" of copper wire.[102]
Internal services
Technology – responsible for the innovation, design, test, build and operation of BT's global networks and systems[93]
BT Research
BT's procurement arm, "BT Sourced", was established in February 2021 and is based in Dublin.[103]
Former CEO Gavin Patterson at the 2016 Chatham House Corporate Leaders Series.
See also: Category:British Telecom people
BT's board of directors as of November 2021:[104]
Jan du Plessis – Chairman
Philip Jansen – Chief Executive
Adel Al-Saleh – Non-independent, non-executive director
Sir Ian Cheshire – Independent non-executive director
Sabine Chalmers – Company secretary &general counsel
Adam Crozier – Chairman Designate
Iain Conn – Senior Independent Director & Non-executive director
Simon Lowth – Group Chief Financial Officer
Isabel Hudson – Non-executive director
Matthew Key – Non-executive director
Allison Kirkby – Non-executive director
Leena Nair – Non-executive director
Sara Weller– Non-executive director
BT's executive committee as of March 2018:[105]
Philip Jansen – Chief Executive
Simon Lowth – Group Chief Financial Officer
Marc Allera – CEO of BT Consumer
Bas Burger – CEO of BT Global Services
Sabine Chalmers – General counsel
Gerry McQuade – CEO of BT Enterprise (BT Business and Public Sector and BT Wholesale and Ventures)
Ed Petter – Corporate affairs director
Cathryn Ross – Director of regulatory affairs
Michael Sherman – Chief strategy and transformation officer
Howard Watson – Chief technology and information officer (CTIO) of BT Technology, Service & Operations
Alison Wilcox – HR director
Dan Fitz – Company secretary
Clive Selley – CEO of Openreach
BT has the second largest defined benefit pension plan of any UK public company.[106] The trustees valued the scheme at £36.7 billion at the end of 2010;[107] an actuarial valuation valued the deficit of the scheme at £9.043 billion as of 31 December 2008.[108] Following a change in the regulations governing inflation index linking, the deficit was estimated at £5.2 billion in November 2010.[109]
BT sponsored Scotland's domestic rugby union championship and cup competitions between 1999 and 2006.[110]
On 31 July 2012, it was announced that BT agreed a three-year sponsorship deal with Ulster Rugby and sees BT become the Official Communications Partner. BT's logo will appear on the Ulster Rugby shirt sleeve for all friendlies, Heineken Cup and RaboDirect Pro12 matches as well as a significant brand presence at their home ground; Ravenhill Stadium.[111]
On 29 July 2013, it was announced that BT had partnered up with Scottish Rugby Union in a four-year sponsorship deal with its two professional clubs; Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors that will commence from August 2013. The deal involves BT Sport becoming the new shirt sponsor for both clubs as well as being promoted with BT Group at their respective home grounds; Scotstoun Stadium and Murrayfield Stadium.[112][113][114]
On 28 May 2014, it was announced that BT agreed a £20 million four-year sponsorship deal with Scottish Rugby Union which includes BT securing the naming rights for Murrayfield Stadium which becomes BT Murrayfield Stadium, become sponsor of the Scotland sevens team, become principal and exclusive sponsor of Scotland's domestic league and cup competitions from next season, taking over the role from The Royal Bank of Scotland and become sponsor of Scottish Rugby's four new academies that aims to drive forward standards for young players who have aspirations to play professionally.[110][115][116]
On 14 April 2015, it was announced that as part of BT's current £20 million four-year sponsorship deal with Scottish Rugby Union that was announced in May 2014, BT has completed its sponsorship portfolio following an additional investment of £3.6 million for the 3 years remaining of its sponsorship deal, to become the new shirt sponsor for the Scotland national teams.[117]
On 27 January 2016, it was announced that BT, alongside YouTube will be the new joint headline sponsors in a three-year deal with Edinburgh International Television Festival. The two companies will "share prominence across all branding of the 41st TV Festival, including the famous MacTaggart Lecture and will work closely with the festival organisers in their bid to reflect new trends in a rapidly transforming industry, from new ways of distributing content to technical innovations such as Virtual Reality".[118]
BT is the founding and principal partner of the Wayne Rooney Foundation, which was established to improve the lives of children and young people. The Foundation will run events "to raise vital funds to support the work of key organisations dedicated to supporting disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people". These organisations are four chosen charities which are, Manchester United Foundation, NSPCC, Claire House Children's Hospice and Alder Hey Children's Hospital. The first of these events was Wayne's testimonial match in August 2016 between Manchester United F.C. and Everton F.C. which raised £1.2 million. The match was screened live through BT Sport with BT MyDonate being the official fundraising platform for the testimonial, with both online and text options for donations promoted during the match.[119][120][121]
On 26 May 2017, it was announced that BT is to sponsor the 2017 British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) and sees BT host every event of the film festival, including the Awards at the BT Tower. BT will also broadcast the awards ceremony on BT.com and will have the opportunity to screen films acquired from the festival on its BT TV store platform.[122][123][124][125][126]
On 6 September 2017, it was announced that BT had extended its current £20 million four-year sponsorship deal with Scottish Rugby Union that was announced in May 2014, for a further three years beginning from June 2018. The new deal sees BT retain the naming rights to BT Murrayfield Stadium, alongside its role as principal partner of the Scotland national team and Scotland 7s. BT's logo will continue to be displayed on the front of Scotland rugby shirts across the world, in the Six Nations Championship, as well as the summer and autumn test matches. BT will also continue to be promoted at Edinburgh Rugby and Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow.[127][128][129][130]
Historical financial performance
BT's financial results have been as follows:[1]
Year ending 31 March
Turnover (£m) 20,704 21,390 20,911 20,076 19,307 18,017 18,287 17,851 18,909 24,082 23,746 23,428 22,905
Profit/(loss) before tax (£m) 1,976 (134) 1,007 1,717 2,421 2,501 2,827 3,172 3,473 2,354 2,616 2,666 2,353
Net profit/(loss) (£m) 1,738 (81) 1,029 1,504 2,003 2,091 2,018 2,135 2,588 1,908 2,032 2,159 1,734
Basic eps (p) 21.5 3.2 13.3 19.4 23.7 26.7 25.7 26.5 33.2 19.2 20.5 21.8 17.5
Turnover (£m) 13,337 13,242 13,675 13,893 14,446 14,935 15,640 16,953 18,715 17,141 18,447 18,727 18,519 18,429 19,514 20,223
Profit/(loss) before tax (£m) 3,073 1,972 2,756 2,662 3,019 3,203 3,214 4,295 2,942 (1,031) 1,461 3,157 1,945 2,693 2,633 2,484
Net profit/(loss) (£m) 2,044 1,220 1,767 1,731 1,986 2,077 1,702 2,983 2,055 (1,875) 1,008 2,702 1,414 1,539 1,644 2,852
Basic eps (p) 33.2 19.8 28.5 27.8 31.6 32.8 26.6 46.3 31.7 (25.8) 12.1 31.4 16.4 18.1 19.5 34.4
World Wide Web hyperlink patent
In 2001, BT discovered it owned a patent (U.S. Patent 4,873,662) which it believed gave it patent rights on the use of hyperlink technology on the World Wide Web. The corresponding UK patent had already expired, but the US patent was valid until 2006. On 11 February 2002, BT began a court case relating to its claims in a US federal court against the Internet service provider Prodigy Communications Corporation. In the case British Telecommunications plc v. Prodigy, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on 22 August 2002 that the BT patent was not applicable to web technology and granted Prodigy's request for summary judgment of non-infringement.[131]
Behavioural targeting
In early 2008 it was announced that BT had entered into a contract (along with Virgin Media and TalkTalk) with the spyware company Phorm (responsible under their 121Media guise for the Apropos rootkit)[132][133] to intercept and analyse their users' click-stream data and sell the anonymised aggregate information as part of Phorm's OIX advertising service.[134][135] The practice, known as "behavioural targeting" and condemned by critics as "data pimping", came under intense fire from various internet communities and other interested-parties who believe that the interception of data without the consent of users and web site owners is illegal under UK law (RIPA).[136][137][138][139] At a more fundamental level, many have argued that the ISPs and Phorm have no right to sell a commodity (a user's data, and the copyrighted content of web sites) to which they have no claim of ownership. In response to questions about Phorm and the interception of data by the Webwise system Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, indicated his disapproval of the concept and is quoted as saying of his data and web history:
It's mine – you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return. I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached. My ISP doesn't control which websites I go to, it doesn't monitor which websites I go to.
—  Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2008[140]
Huawei infrastructure access
Beginning in 2010 the UK intelligence community investigated Huawei, the Chinese supplier of BT's new fibre infrastructure with increasing urgency after the United States, Canada and Australia prevented the company from operating in their countries.[141] Although BT had notified the UK government in 2003 of Huawei's interest in their £10bn network upgrade contract, they did not raise the security implications as BT failed to explain that the Chinese company would have unfettered access to critical infrastructure.[142] On 16 December 2012 the prime minister David Cameron was supplied with an in-depth report indicating that the intelligence services had very grave doubts regarding Huawei, and that UK governmental, military, and civilian privacy may have been under serious threat.[143]
On 7 June 2013, British lawmakers concluded that BT should not have allowed Huawei access to the UK's communications network without ministerial oversight, saying they were 'deeply shocked' that BT did not inform government that they were allowing Huawei and ZTE, both with ties to the Chinese military, unfettered access to critical national systems. Furthermore, ministers discovered that the agency with the responsibility to ensure Chinese equipment and code was threat-free was entirely staffed by Huawei employees. Subsequently, parliamentarians confirmed that in case of an attack on the UK there was nothing that could be done to stop Chinese infiltration.[144]
By 2016 Huawei had put measures in place to ensure the integrity of UK national security. Specifically their UK work is now overseen by a board that includes directors from GCHQ, the Cabinet Office and the Home Office.[145]
ZTE, another Chinese company that supplies extensive network equipment and subscriber hardware used with BT 'Infinity', was also under scrutiny by parliament's intelligence and security committee[146] after the US, Canada, Australia and the European Union declared the company a security risk.[147]
Alleged complicity with drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia
In September 2012, BT entered into a $23 million deal with the US military to provide a key communications cable connecting RAF Croughton, a US military base on UK soil, with Camp Lemonnier, a large US base in Djibouti.[148] Camp Lemonnier is used as a base for American drone attacks in Yemen and Somalia, and has been described by The Economist as "the most important base for drone operations outside the war zone of Afghanistan."[149]
Human rights groups including Reprieve and Amnesty International have criticised the use of armed drones outside declared war zones. Evidence produced by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Stanford University's International Human Rights & Conflict Resolution Clinic suggest that drone strikes have caused substantial civilian casualties, and may be illegal under international law.[150][151]
In 2013, BT was the subject of a complaint by Reprieve to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, following their refusal to explain whether or not their infrastructure was used to facilitate drone strikes.[152] The subsequent refusal of this complaint was appealed in May 2014, on the basis that the UK National Contact Point's decision did not follow the OECD Guidelines. The issue of bias was also raised, due to the appointment of Lord Ian Livingston as government minister for the department which was processing the complaint: Livingston had occupied a senior position at BT when the cable between RAF Croughton and Camp Lemonnier was originally built.[153]
Overcharging
In February 2017, a review of the telecoms market by Ofcom found that BT's landline only contracts provided poor value to customers. Ofcom ordered BT to reduce their prices but stopped short of demanding that customers were compensated.[154] In January 2021, Law firm Mishcon de Reya filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal against BT worth £600 million, accusing them of historic overcharging on landlines. The class action law suite claims BT have increased their prices for line-only services every year since 2009, whilst the wholesale cost for delivering these services has reduced. The claimants suggest that customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each.[155]
Bidding rules violation
In 2020, BT was fined £6.3m by the telecoms regulator Ofcom for violating the law on a large public sector deal in Northern Ireland.[156] Under Ofcom's regulations, the BT network shall handle all wholesale customers similarly. In its report, Ofcom found that BT's network violated the rules by failing to supply Eir with the same details on its on-demand fiber-to-the-premises offering as its own rival team.[157]
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Tiny Pop
WarnerMedia
Cartoon Network
All 4
Amazon Prime Video
BBC iPlayer
BBC Three
digital terrestrial
List of channels
Freesat+
ITV Hub, STV Player
local television
Restricted Service Licence
Sky Group
Freesat from Sky
On Demand
Sky+ HD
TalkTalk TV
TVPlayer
FilmFlex
analogue terrestrial
BBC Store
TalkTalk TV Store
Film4oD
Real Digital
Top Up TV
3 Mills Studios
BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House
BBC Elstree Centre
BBC Pacific Quay
The Bottle Yard Studios
Broadcasting House, Belfast
Broadcasting House, Bristol
Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)
Gas Street Studios
The Leeds Studios
The Maidstone Studios
Mailbox Birmingham
MediaCityUK
Old Granada Studios
Riverside Studios
Roath Lock
The Sharp Project
Sky Campus
Space Studios Manchester
Television Centre, London
Broadcasting House, Cardiff
British and Dominions Imperial Studios
Fountain Studios
Gate Studios
The Hospital Club
Lime Grove Studios
Limehouse Studios
The London Studios
MGM-British Studios
Pebble Mill Studios
Teddington Studios
Television Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne
Television Centre, Southampton
Upper Boat Studios
Defunct channels
Edinburgh International Television Festival
List of years
Student television
Viewing statistics
Most-watched broadcasts
Companies and organisations
Ascential
Bauer Radio
Bloomsbury Publishing
Channel Four Television Corporation
Daily Mail and General Trust
Dentsu Aegis Network
Economist Group
EMI Music Publishing
Endemol Shine UK
Future plc
Global Media & Entertainment
Guardian Media Group
Haymarket Media Group
ITV plc
Johnston Press
Mecom Group
News UK
Newsquest
Northern & Shell
Pearson plc
Press Holdings
Reach plc
STV Group
Syco
Sony Pictures Television Networks
TalkTalk Group
TI Media
UBM plc
ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia
Wireless Group
List of largest UK book publishers
Advertising Standards Authority
BBC Board (formerly: BBC Trust
Board of Governors of the BBC)
British Board of Film Classification
British Film Institute
Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Independent Press Standards Organisation
Press Recognition Panel
S4C Authority
Industry and
trades bodies
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
British Phonographic Industry
Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union
Clearcast
Digital TV Group
Digital UK
Federation Against Copyright Theft
National Union of Journalists
The Publishers Association
Royal Television Society
United Kingdom Independent Broadcasting
BBC Academy
National Film and Television School
National Science and Media Museum
Regional and student media
Media in England
Media in Scotland
Media in Wales
Student press
FTSE 100 companies of the United Kingdom → FTSE 250
Abrdn
Admiral Group
Anglo American
Ashtead Group
Associated British Foods
Auto Trader Group
BAE Systems
Barratt Developments
Berkeley Group Holdings
British American Tobacco
British Land
Bunzl
Coca-Cola HBC
Compass Group
Croda International
Dechra Pharmaceuticals
Electrocomponents
Flutter Entertainment
Halma
Hargreaves Lansdown
Hikma Pharmaceuticals
IHG Hotels & Resorts
Imperial Brands
Intermediate Capital Group
International Airlines Group
JD Sports
Land Securities
Legal & General
Lloyds Banking Group
London Stock Exchange Group
Meggitt
Melrose Industries
National Grid
NatWest Group
Pershing Square Holdings
Phoenix Group
Polymetal International
Rentokil Initial
Rio Tinto
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Mail
Sage Group
J Sainsbury
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust
Segro
Severn Trent
DS Smith
Smith & Nephew
Smiths Group
Smurfit Kappa
Spirax-Sarco Engineering
Standard Chartered
St. James's Place
Taylor Wimpey
United Utilities
Major telecommunications companies
Companies with an annual revenue of over US$10 billion
América Móvil
Bell Canada
Bharti Airtel
Bharat Sanchar Nigam
CMHK
China Telecommunications Corporation
China Telecom
China Unicom
Chunghwa Telecom
CK Hutchison Holdings
Hutchison Asia Telecom Group
Deutsche Telekom
KT Corporation
Liberty Global
Liberty LA (FLOW)
Lumen Technologies
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam
NTT DoCoMo
Orange SA
SK Telecom
SoftBank Mobile
Tata Teleservices
TPG Telecom
Trilogy International Partners
Türk Telekom
Largest IT companies
List of mobile network operators
Category:Telecommunications companies
Selected Royal Warrant holders of the British Royal Family
HM The Queen
Andrex
Abels Moving Services
Ainsworths
Angostura Limited
Axminster Carpets
Bendicks
Bentley Motors
Britvic
Charbonnel et Walker
Colman's
Dairy Crest
DHL Express
Elizabeth Arden
Ede & Ravenscroft
Fortnum & Mason
Frank Smythson
Gieves & Hawkes
Hardy Brothers
HP Bulmer
Henry Poole & Co
J. Barbour & Sons
James Purdey & Sons
Jaguar Cars
John Lewis & Partners
John Lobb
Land Rover
Louis Roederer
Mappin & Webb
Martini & Rossi
McIlhenny Company
Molton Brown
Moët & Chandon
Parker Pen
Procter & Gamble UK
Richer Sounds
Roberts Radio
Robertson's
Ryvita
Steinway & Sons
Tate & Lyle
United Biscuits
Vauxhall Motors
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin
Wilkin & Sons
William Drake
Worcestershire Medal Service
HRH The Prince of Wales
Aston Martin
Crabtree & Evelyn
Holland & Holland
Linn Products
Peter Jones
Ritz Hotel
Shepherd Neame
Taylors of Harrogate
Turnbull & Asser
Winsor & Newton
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
(Deceased April 2021)
Boots Opticians
Lyle & Scott
Truefitt & Hill
Main companies
Magenta Telekom
Magyar Telekom (60.49%)
Makedonski Telekom 56,67%
OTE (45%)
Slovak Telekom
Hrvatski Telekom (51.71%)
Crnogorski Telekom 76.53%
HT Eronet 39.1%
BT Group (12%)
T-Online
T-Systems
T-Mobile Czech Republic
T-Mobile Polska
T-Mobile US
Metro by T-Mobile
Cosmote (via OTE)
Telekom Romania Mobile (via OTE)
Absorbed companies
MobileStar
Omnipoint Communications
Powertel (United States)
Sprint Corporation
SunCom
VoiceStream Wireless
Western Wireless Corporation
Attempted purchase of T-Mobile USA by AT&T
Merger of Sprint Corporation and T-Mobile US
Detecon
Electronic Beats
Kabel Deutschland
Nomad Digital
T-Center
T-Mobile Arena
T-Mobile Center
T-Mobile Park
T-Mobile Team
Telekom Innovation Laboratories
United States v. Davis
T-Mobile 4G LTE CellSpot
Microsoft Academic
MusicBrainz label
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// Licensed under the MIT License.
// Code generated by Microsoft (R) AutoRest Code Generator.

package com.azure.communication.chat.implementation.models;

import com.azure.core.annotation.Fluent;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;

/** A Microsoft Teams user. */
@Fluent
public final class MicrosoftTeamsUserIdentifierModel {
    /*
     * The Id of the Microsoft Teams user. If not anonymous, this is the AAD
     * object Id of the user.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "userId", required = true)
    private String userId;

    /*
     * True if the Microsoft Teams user is anonymous. By default false if
     * missing.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "isAnonymous")
    private Boolean isAnonymous;

    /*
     * The cloud that the Microsoft Teams user belongs to. By default 'public'
     * if missing.
     */
    @JsonProperty(value = "cloud")
    private CommunicationCloudEnvironmentModel cloud;

    /**
     * Get the userId property: The Id of the Microsoft Teams user. If not anonymous, this is the AAD object Id of the
     * user.
     *
     * @return the userId value.
     */
    public String getUserId() {
        return this.userId;
    }

    /**
     * Set the userId property: The Id of the Microsoft Teams user. If not anonymous, this is the AAD object Id of the
     * user.
     *
     * @param userId the userId value to set.
     * @return the MicrosoftTeamsUserIdentifierModel object itself.
     */
    public MicrosoftTeamsUserIdentifierModel setUserId(String userId) {
        this.userId = userId;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the isAnonymous property: True if the Microsoft Teams user is anonymous. By default false if missing.
     *
     * @return the isAnonymous value.
     */
    public Boolean isAnonymous() {
        return this.isAnonymous;
    }

    /**
     * Set the isAnonymous property: True if the Microsoft Teams user is anonymous. By default false if missing.
     *
     * @param isAnonymous the isAnonymous value to set.
     * @return the MicrosoftTeamsUserIdentifierModel object itself.
     */
    public MicrosoftTeamsUserIdentifierModel setIsAnonymous(Boolean isAnonymous) {
        this.isAnonymous = isAnonymous;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the cloud property: The cloud that the Microsoft Teams user belongs to. By default 'public' if missing.
     *
     * @return the cloud value.
     */
    public CommunicationCloudEnvironmentModel getCloud() {
        return this.cloud;
    }

    /**
     * Set the cloud property: The cloud that the Microsoft Teams user belongs to. By default 'public' if missing.
     *
     * @param cloud the cloud value to set.
     * @return the MicrosoftTeamsUserIdentifierModel object itself.
     */
    public MicrosoftTeamsUserIdentifierModel setCloud(CommunicationCloudEnvironmentModel cloud) {
        this.cloud = cloud;
        return this;
    }
}

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Nolan Fans
Discussion forums for the premiere fan community for and by fans of film director Christopher Nolan.
http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/
Disney+'s Cassian Andor Series
http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=39553
Posted: November 9th, 2017, 6:36 pm
by Panapaok
'Star Wars': Live-Action TV Series Coming to Disney Streaming Service
Disney and Lucasfilm are moving forward on a live-action tv series set in the "Star Wars" universe. The series is intended for Disney's streaming service which is expected to launch sometime in 2019. No details about the series were made public.
Re: Untitled Star Wars TV Series (Cassian Andor)
by Bacon
Another streaming service
by Nomis
lol so Disney really is going to pull all their films off of Netflix?
Posted: November 10th, 2017, 2:09 am
by Batfan175
No thank you, I had enough Star Wars for the moment. Ask me again in 30 years.
Posted: November 10th, 2017, 10:40 am
by DoubleD
Wonder if this will be that show that Lucas had so many scripts for, or them bringing in elements of that Bobba Fett movie that fell through?
Either way I guess I'll be signing up for another streaming service.
by m4st4
Secure Nathan Fillion for lead role pls.
by ArmandFancypants
m4st4 wrote: Secure Nathan Fillion for lead role pls.
That would be a great way for it to scream low-rent and invite unfavourable comparison with Firefly
ArmandFancypants wrote:
No, I was thinking find a way to integrate Firefly into Star Wars. Two flies.
Re: Disney+'s Cassian Andor Series
Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger announced today that Lucasfilm is in development on a second Star Wars live-action series for Disney+, the Company's new direct-to-consumer streaming service. The series, which will go into production next year, follows the adventures of rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative years of the Rebellion and prior to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Diego Luna will reprise the role of Andor. "Going back to the Star Wars universe is very special for me," said Luna. "I have so many memories of the great work we did together and the relationships I made throughout the journey. We have a fantastic adventure ahead of us, and this new exciting format will give us the chance to explore this character more deeply."
The rousing spy thriller will explore tales filled with espionage and daring missions to restore hope to a galaxy in the grip of a ruthless Empire. A release date for the series has not yet been announced. Stay tuned to StarWars.com for the latest updates.
https://www.starwars.com/news/cassian-a ... -announced