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BT unit adds to RFID momentum
News ZDNet UK has learnt that the group, known as BT Auto-ID Services, will work with other BT business units such as the IT services group Syntegra to steer companies through RFID trials and implementations.
[January 27, 2004, 16:15]
Firms denounce government broadband plans
News The timing of government intervention comes as pressure mounts on BT and Oftel to sort out the rollout of high-speed ADSL services. Unbundling of the local loop, viewed as a key component of creating a competitive telecoms market, has now seen nine...
[February 15, 2001, 16:05]
UK industry group demands VoIP support
News Britain is lagging behind, although BT has recently made a couple of interesting moves in the space by launching a VoIP product for cable companies. Despite this, BT has not joined ITSPA. Katz says that "no firm decision" has been made about BT's...
[March 23, 2004, 16:25]
BT loses operations chief to Logica CMG
Blog Green led BT's international business sales as CEO of BT Global Services for 6 years from 2001 until BT's restructuring earlier this year. Andy Green is to leave BT after 21 years. The telco's CEO of group strategy and operations will become the...
[October 9, 2007, 9:32]
BT launches secure, hosted IP telephony
News It already has 50,000 users and carries a million calls a day," said Andrew Small, head of contact centres at BT Global Services, on Tuesday. BT and Nortel have unveiled a secure, hosted IP telephony system for large governmental and corporate...
[September 25, 2007, 16:03]
VerticalNet, BT and ICG form £140m venture
News Within each distinct VerticalNet Web site, businesses can meet, seek and exchange information and buy and sell products and services," BT said. BT also has a deal with AT&T for an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network for global electronic commerce.
[February 1, 2000, 14:34]
FSA warns banks: Shape up on security
News BT Global Services finance industry sector managing director Andy Nicholson said in a statement: "With an ever-increasing regulatory environment, operational risk and business continuity planning must extend to every employee, business process and...
[April 28, 2008, 8:56]
BT-MCI merger will create world's second largest telecoms group
News BT is roughly twice the size of MCI and acquired a 20 per cent stake in 1993, creating the Concert Communications Services company, which provides telecoms solutions to 3,000 businesses wordwide. The deal will recreate BT as a significant global...
[November 4, 1996, 11:26]
BT to snap up Brightview
News BT Retail chief executive Ian Livingston said the acquisition will mean Brightview customers will benefit from BT services, resources and technology combined with the "excellent" customer service they already receive.
[July 9, 2007, 8:57]
BT to offer nationwide IP data service
News According to BT's web site and filings to Oftel, BTnet equIP provides VPN services and IP connectivity over dial-up and permanent links with speeds of up to 256k one way and 2Mbps the other -- identical to the ADSL trial currently nearing its end...
[June 2, 1999, 8:37]
BT wants an end to rivals' bickering
News Verwaayen also claimed that BT was giving Ofcom the chance to reshape Britain's regulatory landscape, with its offer to split part of its business into a separate "access services" division. BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen hopes that his company's...
[April 5, 2005, 15:15]
BT business customers to become Wi-Fi hotspots
News Business customers want to provide services to visitors, whether they be guests, customers or suppliers," Hughes said, while suggesting that as many as 200,000 BT business customers may sign up to Business Open Wi-Fi.
[May 21, 2008, 11:45]
VMware pushes hosted virtualisation
News The VSPP service could benefit a company like BT, as it would enable the telco to use virtualisation technologies to improve the performance of its broadband service to customers. BT could also use VSPP to allow its customers to run hosted...
[June 8, 2007, 12:30]
Analysis: BT faces dilemma over debt
News The restructuring and sell-off announcements, described by Bonfield as the telco's most radical move since privatisation, were accompanied by a cutback in its global investments and was intended to raise BT's ailing share price.
[March 14, 2001, 14:10]
BT invites Second Life users to AvaTalk
News AvaTalk uses BT's global IP platform, Web21C, to carry calls and transmit SMS messages to mobile networks around the world. BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free AvaTalk phone and texting service.
[March 25, 2008, 14:15]
BT to build common standards into home-network kit
News These systems will be DECT and 802.11 compliant and are intended to complement BT's wide area services, including ISDN and ADSL offerings. Using kit developed in conjunction with HWN, BT wants to install wireless base stations in the centre of our...
[September 7, 1999, 11:14]
Expired VeriSign certificates cause confusion
News BT continues to issue VeriSign certificates for its hosting customers along with other services, said Francois Steiger, senior vice president for Europe, when speaking to ZDNet UK in December. Customers using VeriSign certificates have previously...
[January 9, 2004, 12:59]
BT and Avaya to offer hosted call centres
News According to Andrew Small, head of contact centres for BT Global services, the two firms plan to offer "flexible call-centre technology so customers will only pay for what they use". BT has teamed up with communications supplier Avaya to offer a...
[March 5, 2007, 10:50]
BT merges and rebrands Lynx, Basilica
News BT Business's strategy and commercial director, Mick Hegarty, said on Tuesday that BT historically had had a focus on its Global Services division and its consumer offerings, but the SME market had, until now, been "underplayed".
[March 26, 2009, 12:41]
Cisco accredits BT to sell conferencing kit
News We can't mention other customers at the moment, but we've got a fairly strong pipeline," said Simon Farr, BT Global Services' head of marketing for convergence infrastructure. BT has achieved accreditation to sell Cisco's TelePresence video...
[June 19, 2007, 12:34]
