BT Takes a Leaf Out of Hedge Fund Billionaire's Songbook

After years of prevarication, BT Group Plc seems finally willing to consciously uncouple from its fixed-network business. CEO Gavin Patterson may be learning from the experience of BT’s Italian peer. The former British national telecoms operator is evaluating informal proposals to sell at least a minority stake in Openreach, which operates most of the country’s phone and broadband networks, according to a Bloomberg News scoop late on Thursday.