BT and Three pledge cooperation with UK probes into network outages
By Patricia Figueiredo ( December 16, 2025, 13:11 GMT | Insight) -- Mobile companies BT Group and Three have vowed full cooperation with the UK telecom regulator after it opened probes into outages that disrupted call services, including access to emergency numbers. The operators, which reported separate incidents last summer, face an assessment of whether they met mandatory resilience obligations, Ofcom said on Tuesday. BT was fined £17.5 million in 2024 for a similar emergency-call failure.UK mobile operators BT Group and Three said they will fully cooperate with telecom regulator Ofcom after it opened investigations into nationwide outages that disrupted call services on their networks earlier this year....
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