Heed the advice of successful companies

We read that BT’s newly appointed chief executive Philip Jansen was granted an interview with British prime minister Boris Johnson to plead for special treatment to ensure the most rapid rollout of full fibre broadband services in the UK (“BT presents full fibre strategy to Downing Street”, August 3).

 Downing Street, Ofcom and other interested parties may observe that the BT share price is currently languishing at the level of privatisation some 35 years ago, successive BT Group managements having achieved shareholder value destruction on a monumental scale.

 Its most recent faux pas was to diversify into pay television services at the expense of ignoring its basic network infrastructure, instead touting its copper based “G.fast” technology as an alternative to fibre broadband.

 Downing Street, Ofcom and others may do better to heed the advice of more successful companies in the sector.