British Telecom Group (BT Group)

About The Fund

British Telecom Group (BT Group) is a comprehensive communications service provider, offering a broad spectrum of services to varied customer segments globally. With an operational span across multiple segments that include global services, business, consumer, wholesale, and openreach, they exhibit a robust presence in the communications market. Their investment activities are reflective of their scope as they engage in transactions with a minimum investment size of 9,800,000 and scaling up to 33,600,000. BT Group's investment approach is rooted in leveraging their expansive expertise to innovate within the realms of managed networked IT services and consulting to corporate and public sector clients, focusing on Internet protocol (IP), Ethernet, virtual private network services, and cybersecurity measures such as firewalls, web security, intrusion prevention, and threat monitoring. They underscore the importance of collaboration services, contact center operations, and offer infrastructural support like telehousing and colocation. Furthermore, the BT Business segment caters to diverse necessities encompassing fixed-voice, broadband, mobility, networking, IT services, fire and security alarm signaling, surveillance networks, control room services, in addition to directory enquiries and emergency service operations. For the consumer segment, BT delivers fixed-voice, broadband, TV services, sports content, online data storage solutions, parental controls, and Wi-Fi services. Their wholesale division extends broadband, data connectivity, voice, exchange hosting, and media and broadcast services jointly with managed solutions for broadband and TV providers, and broadcasters. Openreach, another segment, offers fiber broadband, passive infrastructure access, wholesale line rental, unbundling, Ethernet services, and mobile infrastructure solutions. Complementing these services, BT retails technology equipment and extends other services like systems integration, fleet management, payment services, and conferencing solutions. Since its inception in 2001, headquartered in London, United Kingdom, BT Group has expanded to become a key player, committed to connecting people and creating opportunities through their investment ventures and their extensive range of services.