BT Group DIGITAL

Research date: 22 September 2026 Target: BT Group plc / British Telecommunications group Domain: Digital - digital infrastructure, software, data, cyber and AI relationships

BT’s FY2026 financial statements list B.T. Communication Israel Ltd as a 100%-owned subsidiary at Beit Oz, 14 Abba Hillel Silver Road, Ramat Gan 52506.¹ That corporate presence establishes a current Israeli subsidiary but does not, by itself, establish an Israeli data centre, R&D facility, state customer or military end user.¹

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Check Point. BT Security’s 27 August 2020 supplier rationalisation identified Israel-incorporated Check Point Software Technologies as an “Ecosystem Partner”; Check Point’s FY25 APAC awards later named BT Australia “Telco Partner of the Year,” confirming a post-2024 regional channel relationship.^{2, 3, 4} Status: ongoing in at least the APAC/BT Australia channel as evidenced for FY25.⁴

Palo Alto Networks. BT currently describes Palo Alto Networks as a “critical security and infrastructure partner,” saying the companies jointly deliver SASE and cybersecurity solutions and that BT is a Palo Alto Certified Professional Services Partner.⁵ Palo Alto’s SEC proxy identifies Nir Zuk as a founder, with earlier technical roles at Check Point and study at Tel Aviv University; Palo Alto is a US-domiciled company, so this audit treats it as a founder and technology-lineage relationship rather than an Israeli-domiciled supplier.⁶

CyberArk. In May 2023 BT and Israel-incorporated CyberArk announced a global Privileged Identity Security managed service built exclusively on the CyberArk Identity Security Platform.^{7, 8} The launch source establishes a concrete BT service and integration but does not establish that the same commercial arrangement remained in force after 2024; status: current after 2023 not independently confirmed in the reviewed primary material.⁷

Verint. In June 2025 Verint said BT Group was using its Coaching Bot, Wrap Up Bot and CX/EX Scoring Bot in inbound sales contact centres and scaling use from 450 to 4,500 agents; BT’s current Optimise Cloud Contact page says the service is powered by Verint Solutions and its Cloud CX Automation Platform.^{9, 10} Verint is not Israel-incorporated in its current filing, but its 2025 10-K states that R&D is performed primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, India, Hungary, Ireland and Indonesia.¹¹

NiCE. [pre-2020] A 2017 SEC-filed NiCE release said BT Group selected NiCE WFM, NiCE Engage and Nexidia Analytics for a three-year group-wide rollout covering multi-channel recording, workforce management and speech/text analytics; the present status of that specific 2017 architecture is unknown.¹² Separately, in April 2026 NiCE said Openreach, a BT Group unit, deployed Cognigy AI agents across 15 million customer journeys; NiCE’s current 20-F identifies NiCE Ltd. as incorporated in Israel and headquartered in Ra’anana.^{13, 14}

AudioCodes. [pre-2020] AudioCodes said in 2017 that BT selected its Mediant session border controllers for BT business voice and SIP services in the UK.¹⁵ AudioCodes’ current partner locator lists BT Global Services as a worldwide Platinum Partner, confirming a continuing commercial partner relationship but not that the 2017 product architecture remains unchanged.¹⁶

Other named vendors requested for verification. No public evidence identified in the reviewed BT partner and product materials of a verified BT licensing, subscription or integration relationship with Wiz, SentinelOne, Claroty, Oosto/AnyVision, BriefCam, Trigo or Trax; compatibility pages and staff-skill adverts were not treated as procurement evidence.^{2, 5, 16}

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

Customer and workforce analytics. BT’s verified Verint deployment uses AI-powered Coaching, Wrap Up and CX/EX Scoring bots in sales contact centres, while the [pre-2020] NiCE deployment included multi-channel recording plus speech/text analytics intended to generate insights into customer and agent behaviour.^{9, 12} These are verified customer-service and workforce-analytics uses; the cited sources do not describe facial recognition, gait analysis or predictive policing.^{9, 12}

Facial recognition, biometrics and predictive monitoring. No public evidence identified in the reviewed vendor, BT partner and product material of BT deploying Israeli-origin facial-recognition, biometric-identification, gait-analysis, predictive-policing or social-media-monitoring technology from Oosto/AnyVision, BriefCam, Trigo, Trax or a comparable named Israeli supplier.^{2, 5, 9, 13}

Third-party or bundled deployment. BT’s ecosystem model demonstrably bundles third-party technology into managed services - for example the CyberArk-managed identity service and current Palo Alto cybersecurity and SASE delivery - but no public evidence identified that an Israeli-origin facial-recognition or predictive-policing tool reaches BT indirectly through those reviewed platforms.^{5, 7}

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Post-2023 BT/Bezeq international carriage. BT has a current wholly owned Israeli subsidiary in Ramat Gan.¹ A Bezeq International Data & Network Engineer recruitment posting, current in 2025–2026, says its team activates and supports dedicated international customer links end-to-end, including maintenance and troubleshooting of line failures, latency and packet loss, and works with foreign operators including BT, AT&T and Verizon.¹⁷ The source therefore establishes BT’s current function as one of the foreign network-operator counterparts used in Bezeq International’s operation and support of dedicated international data links; it does not establish that every Bezeq International customer route uses BT or that BT is the exclusive carrier.¹⁷ [pre-2020] A 2018 SEC-filed Bezeq disclosure provides historical functional context: Bezeq International’s international data services used partnerships with global operators including British Telecom to give customers access to those operators’ global network services.¹⁸ BT separately describes its current international network model as centred on Global Voice and Global Fabric, including cloud-centric data flows, but no reviewed source identifies Global Fabric as the specific Bezeq International service or route.¹⁹

Israeli routing and interconnection. Bezeq’s 2024 ESG disclosure says Bezeq International TECH’s JONAH submarine cable carries 35% of Israel’s internet traffic and provides international connectivity infrastructure.²⁰ AWS currently lists Bezeq International Tech as a Direct Connect partner at EdgeConnex Herzliya and MedOne Haifa, while Google Cloud lists Bezeq International as a Layer 2 Cloud Interconnect service provider in Tel Aviv.^{21, 22} The same AWS table lists BT at multiple non-Israeli Direct Connect locations but not at its two listed Israeli locations; this does not rule out other BT routes or facilities, but no reviewed source identifies a BT-owned Israeli Direct Connect endpoint.²¹

Israeli storage and processing. A current Bezeq International primary post describes its network as five server farms across Israel and a disaster-recovery service that can replicate customer data to a Sparkle data centre in Athens over fibre between Israel and Greece.²³ This establishes Israeli storage/hosting capacity and cross-border processing/backup capability at Bezeq International, but no public evidence identified that BT customer data is stored in those server farms or that BT operates them.^{1, 23}

Data centres and residency. BT’s current colocation offer says it uses more than 500 third-party data-centre locations worldwide and markets colocation for data-residency and sovereignty requirements; the reviewed page does not identify an Israeli site.²⁴ The Israeli subsidiary disclosure likewise does not describe a BT-operated, leased or co-located Israeli data centre.¹ no public evidence identified of a BT-operated, leased or co-located data-centre facility in Israel in the reviewed primary material.^{1, 24}

Israeli legal accessibility. DLA Piper’s current Israel data-protection guide identifies the Israel Privacy Authority as the national data-protection authority, describes Israeli requirements for collection and processing of personal data, and states that transfers of personal data abroad are governed by the Privacy Protection Regulations and specified transfer conditions.²⁵ Herzog’s analysis of Amendment 13 records expanded Privacy Protection Authority enforcement powers and the amended framework for controllers and holders of personal-data databases, effective from August 2025.²⁶ The Knesset’s current legislation record shows the Communications Data Law remains in force, with a 2024 amendment; Knesset explanatory material states that the law regulates investigative authorities’ acquisition from licensed telecom operators of communications data including subscriber, call-time/duration and location data.²⁷ A January 2026 State Comptroller report confirms Israeli police use of systems for acquiring communications data and tools that can record data transmitted between computers.²⁸ These sources establish legal and operational accessibility of communications data under Israeli processes; they do not establish that any BT-carried Bezeq International traffic was actually requested, intercepted or disclosed.^{25, 27, 28}

Project Nimbus and Israeli government cloud. Official Israeli government material describes Project Nimbus as a government cloud programme involving the Government Procurement Administration, National Digital Agency, Israel National Cyber Directorate, Ministry of Defense and IDF, and states that AWS and Google were selected as the public-cloud providers.²⁹ no public evidence identified of BT being a Nimbus cloud provider or named participant in the reviewed government material.²⁹

BT–AWS distinction. BT and AWS announced a broader cloud and connectivity partnership in 2022 under which BT became an AWS Marketplace Channel Partner and could offer managed security and third-party SaaS to customers globally.³⁰ That relationship establishes an AWS commercial channel, but it does not establish that BT supplies Nimbus, Israeli ministries, the IDF or any Israel-hosted AWS workload.^{29, 30}

Data-sovereignty services to Israeli state bodies. BT markets data-residency and sovereignty outcomes through its global colocation service, but no public evidence identified of a BT service specifically contracted or marketed to provide sovereign-cloud, data-residency or infrastructure-resilience services to an Israeli ministry, military or security body.^{29, 24}

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

Direct digital contracts. No public evidence identified in the reviewed BT, Israeli government and vendor sources of a direct BT contract to provide general-purpose cloud, cyber, communications analytics or data-hosting technology to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israeli intelligence agencies or other Israeli state-security bodies.^{1, 29, 30}

Bezeq International downstream state/security use. Who Profits’ current Bezeq profile reports that Bezeq International supplied COGAT with internet services in June 2024, supplied the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank with central-phone communications from March through December 2024, and supplied DCL/DCO Gaza with international communications in January 2024.³¹ Open Budget, which republishes Israeli public-procurement data, separately records a 2024 Bezeq International telephony procurement for COGAT’s Civil Administration at Beit El and a communications-services procurement for COGAT Gaza.^{32, 33} Bezeq’s 2023 periodic reporting separately states that group companies supplied essential communications to state institutions including security forces after 7 October 2023 and records the fixed-line company’s Judea and Samaria licence.³⁴ The wider Bezeq group is also documented as providing settlement and military telecommunications, and current OHCHR-update reporting identifies Bezeq among settlement-linked enterprises.^{35, 31} These downstream facts establish Bezeq International state/security customers and the wider settlement nexus, but do not by themselves identify the international carrier used for any specific contract.^{17, 31, 32, 33}

Absence-only digital frame - BT path to downstream use. No public evidence identified that a BT-provided dedicated link, BT global network service, BT Global Fabric path or other BT carriage was used for the 2024 Bezeq International services to COGAT, the Civil Administration at Beit El, DCL/DCO Gaza, settlement telecommunications or any documented Palestinian-facing service.^{17, 31, 32, 33} The current Bezeq International posting establishes that BT is one of the foreign operators used in operating dedicated international customer links, while the downstream records identify Bezeq International customers; none maps those customers to BT.^{17, 31} This is a scoped absence of a customer-level routing bridge, not an absence of the independently documented Bezeq International state/security services.^{31, 32, 33}

Dual-use, offensive cyber and surveillance. The verified BT relationships with Check Point, Palo Alto, CyberArk, Verint, NiCE and AudioCodes are commercial cybersecurity, communications or customer-experience technologies.^{5, 4, 7, 9, 13, 16} no public evidence identified in the reviewed material that BT developed, sold, licensed or maintained offensive cyber exploits or zero-days for Israeli state actors, or that an Israeli state body deployed a BT-origin offensive cyber tool.^{1, 29}

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Current general-purpose AI. BT Group’s 2025 Verint deployment uses AI bots for coaching, wrap-up and CX/EX scoring in sales contact centres, and Openreach’s 2026 NiCE Cognigy deployment uses proactive AI agents to manage broadband customer journeys.^{9, 13} These are general-purpose commercial customer-service applications, not purpose-built kinetic targeting systems.^{9, 13}

Israeli state and security provision. No public evidence identified in the reviewed BT, vendor and government sources of BT providing AI/ML, computer-vision or autonomous decision-support systems to Israeli state, military or security bodies.^{9, 13, 29} no public evidence identified that a BT model or platform was trained on civilian-population data, intercepted communications or surveillance-derived datasets from Israel or the occupied territories.^{9, 13, 29}

Autonomous lethality boundary. No public evidence identified in this Digital review of BT providing autonomous target-generation, fire-control or kill-chain software to Israeli forces; any product purpose-built primarily for kinetic targeting would fall in Military rather than this domain.^{1, 29}

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

BT R&D locations. BT’s current R&D page says it has global research centres in the UK, Ireland, UAE and India and collaborates with universities, start-ups, investors and public bodies; Israel is not listed among its research-centre locations.³⁶ Together with the financial-statement disclosure of a Ramat Gan subsidiary, this establishes Israeli corporate presence but no public evidence identified of a BT-operated Israeli R&D centre.^{1, 36}

Acquisitions, investments and academic IP. No public evidence identified in the reviewed BT R&D and financial disclosures of BT acquiring an Israeli technology company, making a direct strategic investment in an Israeli technology start-up or fund, or entering a material patent-licensing or co-development arrangement with Technion, Hebrew University or the Weizmann Institute.^{1, 36}

Controlling-principal and greater-than-10% shareholder context. BT’s 2026 governance report records Bharti Televentures UK Limited at 24.95% and T-Mobile Holdings Limited at 12.06% of BT voting rights and separately identifies Deutsche Telekom’s nominated BT director and relationship agreement.³⁷ Deutsche Telekom’s 2025 holdings statement identifies T-Mobile Holdings Limited within its group, while Deutsche Telekom separately describes Israel-inclusive technology investment activity through DTCP and T.Capital and documented a $25 million 2022 equity investment in Israeli cloud-WAN company Teridion.^{38, 39, 40} These are acts of a greater-than-10% shareholder group for controlling-principal research purposes; they are not BT acquisitions, BT product deployments or evidence that Teridion technology is used by BT.^{37, 39, 40}

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

UN, OHCHR and campaign checks. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s record of the 2025 UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23 was checked alongside the locally held report; no BT Group or British Telecommunications-specific technology finding was identified in the reviewed material.⁴¹ Current OHCHR-update reporting identifies Bezeq rather than BT in the settlement-enterprise material followed for this audit, and the reviewed BDS priority-target guide did not produce a BT-specific technology-provision designation.^{35, 42}

Constructive-notice timeline. The International Court of Justice delivered its advisory opinion concerning Israel’s policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territory on 19 July 2024, and the International Criminal Court issued warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on 21 November 2024.^{43, 44} Post-notice evidence shows continuing general commercial technology relationships: Check Point’s FY25 award names BT Australia, Verint documents a 2025 BT deployment and BT currently markets a Verint-powered service, and NiCE documents an Openreach deployment in April 2026.^{4, 9, 10, 13} None of those vendor sources identifies an Israeli state, military or settlement end user for the BT relationship.^{4, 9, 10, 13}

Boycott, regulatory and legal actions. No public evidence identified in the reviewed BDS and UN material of an organised campaign specifically targeting BT over its technology provision to Israel, and no public evidence identified in the reviewed BT, government or regulatory material of an export-control, sanctions, privacy-regulatory or court action specifically concerning BT technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.^{1, 29, 41, 42}