Company Editor

"bt": {
    "names": [
        "BT",
        "BT Group plc",
        "British Telecom",
        "BT.A",
        "Electric Telegraph Company"
    ],
    "comment": "BT is a British telecommunications company that supplied military infrastructure used in drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia [1], overcharged customers by £600 million and concealed information about those overcharges [2][3][4], and engaged in price‑fixing schemes that underpaid freelancers [5]. It has also been responsible for failures that crippled the UK's emergency call handling system [6] and for unsafe working conditions that contributed to a technician's death due to lack of training [7].",
    "sources": {
        "1": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140521031829/http://www.reprieve.org.uk/media/downloads/2013_07_15_PUB_Complaint_to_UK_NCP_re_BT_plc.pdf",
        "2": "https://www.callclaim.co.uk/media/y5hlb5kd/2021-01-17-call-press-release-final.pdf",
        "3": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/service-quality/18m-in-refunds-and-credits-for-bt-customers-following-ofcom-enforcement",
        "4": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/bulletins/competition-bulletins/all-closed-cases/cw_01217",
        "5": "https://www.cityam.com/sky-bt-img-itv-and-bbc-broadcasters-caught-in-freelancer-pay-fixing-scandal/",
        "6": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/telecoms-infrastructure/bt-fined-17.5m-for-999-call-handling-failures",
        "7": "https://www.ioshmagazine.com/2024/06/11/ps14m-fine-telecoms-giant-after-engineers-body-found-river"
    },
    "sourceNotes": {
        "1": "was involved in providing military infrastructure used in drone strikes in yemen and somalia",
        "2": "overcharged customers by £600 million",
        "3": "engaged in price fixing to underpay freelancers",
        "4": "hid information and overcharged customers",
        "5": "hid information and overcharged customers",
        "6": "responsible for problems that disabled the company's provision of the UK's emergency call handling system",
        "7": "unsafe working conditions and lack of training led to a technician's death"
    },
    "tags": [
        "telecommunications"
    ],
    "score": 20,
    "ownedBy": [],
    "logoUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/BT_Group_2022.svg",
    "siteUrl": "https://www.bt.com/about",
    "updatedAt": "2025-09-16T09:26:11.926Z"
},