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She later became BT's director of strategy and regulatory affairs. [6] On 1 April 2011 she was made chief executive of their Openreach division; Openreach had been formed in 2006. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In that position, she spearheaded and oversaw the £2.5 billion rollout of fibre broadband ( BT Infinity service) to two thirds of the UK. [ 6 ]
In August 2023, BT Group announced Kirkby as its new Chief Executive Officer as of February 1st, 2024. [6] Kirkby will be the first woman to hold the position. [ 2 ] As chief executive, Kirkby will be responsible for the £15 billion rollout of fibre broadband to 25 million homes by 2026 and the cutting up to 55,000 jobs by 2030.
Bas Burger, CEO of BT Global at the time, was appointed CEO of the new combined business. Enterprise's Wholesale unit (marketed as BT Wholesale) provides communication providers and other organisations with fixed or mobile phone services, with more than 1,400 customers, including Sky , Talk Talk , Virgin Media O2 and Three .
Bas Burger was born in 1970 [9] [1] in the Netherlands. [4] From 1989 until 1993 [10] Burger attended Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands, graduating with a BBA. [11] He subsequently attended the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom from 1993 until 1995, [10] where he earned his master of business administration.
During his tenure as CEO of BT Group, an industrial dispute began with the CWU due to pay and working conditions. [7] This led to a strike ballot where 91.5% of BT, 95.8% of Openreach and 95.5% of EE CWU members who took part in the ballot voted to strike. [8] During the dispute, some employees and commentators referred to him as “Foodbank ...
Britain's CityFibre has filed a complaint to the competition regulator against BT's Openreach, claiming the nationwide network operator is using pricing to deter its internet service provider (ISP ...
An Openreach engineer working on the "Superfast West Yorkshire" project in Wetherby (2014) at a manhole. Following the Telecommunications Strategic Review (TSR), in September 2005 British Telecom signed undertakings with Ofcom to create a separate division, for the purpose of providing equal access to BT’s local access network and backhaul products. [3]
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