BT set to create 7,000 new jobs in broadband rollout to 25m homes
The boss of BT plans to “build like fury across the country” as he invests the money from a Government tax deduction in plugging homes into the fibre broadband network.
Philip Jansen told reporters that the company would create jobs as it upped its fibre targets by five million within the next five years.
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Hide AdAround 25 million homes will now be connected by 2026, up from 20 million earlier.
‘Super deduction’
The investment was made possible, BT said, in part by the Government’s recent tax deduction, designed to unlock investment from big companies.