{"id":180707,"date":"2025-09-30T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180707\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:12:10","slug":"bt-shares-drop-after-analyst-downgrade-on-uk-broadband-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180707\/","title":{"rendered":"BT Shares Drop After Analyst Downgrade on UK Broadband Slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BT\/A:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">BT Group Plc<\/a>\u2019s shares slipped after analysts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2161980Z:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">New Street Research<\/a> downgraded the British telecommunications company\u2019s stock, citing a shrinking fixed broadband market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The number of customers who pay for fixed-line broadband, where BT is the dominant player, will drop by about 250,000 this year, \u201cthe first time there has ever been a decline,\u201d the analysts said in a report on Tuesday, cutting their rating on BT to \u201cneutral\u201d from \u201cbuy.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BT Group Plc\u2019s shares slipped after analysts at New Street Research downgraded the British telecommunications company\u2019s stock, citing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,116172,182,53114,3786,80066,237,2022,92532,105,3586,50890,16586],"class_list":["post-180707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bt-group-plc","tag-economic-growth","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-government","tag-great-britain","tag-internet","tag-london","tag-megacity","tag-technology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vodafone-group-plc","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}