BT to Invest Billions More on Fibre, 4G and Customer Service

BT have announced a further wave of investment to help the UK remain the leading digital nation in the G20. Its Openreach and EE businesses will, between them spend around six billion pounds in capital expenditure over the next three years in the first phase of a plan to extend superfast broadband and 4G coverage beyond 95% of the country by 2020.

BT Group Chief Executive, Gavin Patterson said:

The UK is a digital leader today and it is vital that it remains one in the future. That is why we are announcing a further six billion pounds of investment in our UK networks, subject to regulatory certainty. Networks require money and a lot of it. Virgin and BT have both pledged to invest and we will not see if others follow our lead.