BT forced to keep working with Russia’s telecoms operator

Rostelecom is Russia’s major telecoms enterprise, with its 13m broadband subscribers and 10.9m pay Tv shoppers and generates revenues of about £2.8bn a yr.

BT World-wide gives cybersecurity, cloud computing and community companies to massive corporations close to the environment such as Nestle, HSBC and Visa. 

However, the enterprise has scaled again its organization in Russia in current yrs and only just 17 workers in the nation. 

The revelations occur as Marks & Spencer stopped shipments to franchise suppliers in Russia, Ikea closed its retailers and factories, and Volkswagen halted the production of cars in reaction to war in Ukraine. 

In the meantime, Vodafone identified as time on a 14-year connection with 1 of Russia’s greatest cellular operators previously this week. 

Vodafone experienced deepened its relationship with MTS at the end of January, but has since moved to suspend its “companion arrangement” as Russia’s assault intensifies. 

The cellular titan had joined forces with MTS in 2008 to assistance generate innovation and bolster its client and business arms. 

MTS has additional than 80m mobile consumers across Russia, Armenia and Belarus, as nicely as 9m landline, broadband and pay out Television set clients. 

BT declined to comment.