Over the past year, UK incumbent BT has forcefully put into motion its group-wide restructuring and reprofiling strategy, aimed at shifting the focus from being a traditional network operator, to becoming the country’s leading digital service provider (DSP). This aspiration is indicative of the growing confidence of traditional telcos to deploy new 5G use cases, a few years after many launched 5G services, initially driven by high-throughput consumer mobile broadband. It also highlights the challenging macro-economic environment in which BT Group, and the wider telco sector, find themselves. . BT’s ambition is to transition away from a ‘telco’ image, instead wishing to be perceived as a ‘tech-co’. The initial tactics are to separate its traditional consumer mobile and fiber provider…