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BT TV adds film channel TCM to channel line-up
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The channel’s 2016 lineup includes Tom Cruise favourite, Jerry Maquire, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the Mad Max trilogy which will be shown alongside hit crime drama Longmire and western Hell on Wheels.
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BT keeps Openreach after review says standalone business would have no incentive to invest
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Instead of ordering Openreach to from the rest of the BT Group, Ofcom is proposing that other telecoms providers be allowed to use BT’s network of ducts and telegraph poles to lay their own cables.
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BT to auto-block nuisance calls
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The company will use its “huge computing power” to identify rogue numbers, including those which make large numbers of calls, and them to a BT blacklist which will divert up to 25 million unwanted calls each week to a junk voicemail box.
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BT confirms TV customers will lose Fox and Fox HD
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BT TV customers are set to miss out on the second half of The Walking Dead’s latest series after the company confirmed it’s losing Fox from its channel line-up at the end of this month.
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Government and BT strike new deal to install fibre broadband in new homes
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Under the deal, Openreach will make a “significant contribution” to the installation costs before asking property developers to pay. It’s expected this will see Openreach foot the entire bill for connecting half of all new properties.
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BT bolsters mobile TV app
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BT TV has updated its Apple and Android app, adding a new, dedicated kids’ on-demand and catch-up library, seven more channels and a “fantastic collection” of catch-up content from its pay channels.