Some 515,000 people tuned in to BT Sport on Saturday evening to watch Manchester City beat Sunderland 2-1 in an English Premier League opener.

Britain’s biggest telecoms operator BT avoided being broken up when the regulator proposed putting the firm’s network into a legally separate company within the wider group in a bid to improve broadband coverage.

BT Ireland is “frustrated” and “disappointed” by the delay in the rollout of the National Broadband Plan, which it claims is due to rival Eir “chopping and changing” its plans.

Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges often says Europe needs fewer, bigger telecommunications carriers that can invest in faster networks and better compete with Google and Facebook. Deutsche Telekom has a 12% stake in BT.

The City will look to see if broadcaster Sky can continue to add customers under increasing competition from rival BT, and will find out whether Dixons Carphone was a retail winner or loser over Christmas.

Pay TV giant Sky shrugged off the increasing threat from rival BT as it notched up its best first quarter UK customer growth for four years.

BT Ireland yesterday announced all-island financial results for the year to the end of March with profit up 4% on a yearly basis.

A common plant could be used to help treat chemical spills and other river pollution — and young scientists are helping turn the idea from theory to practice this week.

Telecoms giant BT boosted its broadband operation today with the acquisition of internet provider Brightview for £15.8m (€23.4m).

Esat BT today announced a 25% increase in revenues from €138m to €173m in the half year to September 30 compared with the same period last year.

Telecoms giant BT today said rising demand for broadband had helped it to its fastest underlying revenues growth in nearly three years.