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Costa joins Wi-Fi hot spot rollout
News Pierre Danon, chief executive officer of BT Retail, said that developing strong relationships with key high street partners like Costa is essential if BT is to achieve targets for rolling out BT Openzone.
[October 31, 2002, 12:34]
Royal Mail to make £2m RFID investment
News Haydn Britton, general manager of BT Retail, said that the Post Office's parent company will be spending £2-3m on the technology to ensure it improves its mail services and thereby manages to avoid a £70m fine from Postwatch for missing efficiency...
[February 28, 2005, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog At the launch Ian Livingston, CEO of BT Retail, was asked why Fusion was not being made more widely available. That can't be true, of course, such patronising attitudes went out with the GPO and we're now in the time of the customer-centred...
[July 1, 2005, 19:15]
MPs to scrutinise broadband
News The inquiry will cover issues such as broadband rollout via both fixed line and satellite, the retail market for broadband services, and the effect of BT's dominant market position on competition. The launch of the inquiry has already been welcomed...
[September 15, 2003, 11:40]
Campaign urges cheaper calls to mobiles
News John Petter, BT Retail's consumer chief, said in a statement on Wednesday that the reduction was necessary to give consumers a fair deal. The campaign was launched by BT and 3 UK in May this year, and is now supported by more than 60 organisations...
[October 28, 2009, 14:54]
Public-private partnership boosts rural ADSL
News Today our Smartplace partners are demonstrating to the rest of the country how, by making high-speed communications the heart of their economic strategies, the public sector together with BT can also put more communities at the centre of a...
[July 28, 2003, 17:41]
UK's broadband boom rockets
News BT recently spent £10m on a broadband awareness campaign, and it is currently funding a £23m campaign for BT Broadband -- the "no-frills" product offered by BT Retail. Latest figures from BT, NTL and Telewest show that, after the disappointment of...
[November 15, 2002, 12:06]
Intel and Alcatel form WiMax alliance
News If the potential benefits of WiMax, such as voice services and portability, are realised, then there might be a case for rolling out a WiMax service more widely," said Ian Robinson, head of emerging products at BT Retail, recently.
[March 26, 2004, 12:10]
Ofcom hints at 21CN regulation
News The latter option would allow rival operators to offer the same retail services as BT itself, and could prevent the telco from monopolising the market for next-generation broadband services. Ofcom may regulate BT's next-generation network in much...
[November 24, 2006, 12:33]
AOL may opt for mass-market broadband rollout
News Tuesday's announcement, which should see the retail cost of broadband fall to £30 per month, has found favour with the ISP, which currently has more than 1.5 million customers in the UK. The ADSL price cuts announced by BT on Tuesday morning have...
[February 26, 2002, 10:35]
Bluetooth shatters milestone as new standard debuts
Talkback I really wish I knew what these one million Bluetooth devices a week were.the only high profile BT devices I know of are Apple computers, a couple of PDAs and cell phones and a bunch of USB, CF and SD adapters - few of which you can actually buy...
[November 7, 2003, 17:39]
Rural broadband pilot to be extended
News Pierre Danon, chief executive of BT Retail, said in a statement that this latest initiative, together with two other initiatives also launched on Thursday, are aimed at meeting the needs of small and medium-sized businesses.
[June 27, 2002, 14:58]
Dixons may ditch Freeserve for AOL
News The Dixons Group, which runs around 1,400 shops around Europe and includes retail chains Dixons, Currys and PC World, has been in talks with BT and AOL for at least six months. But according to sources, BT has been ruled out of the equation...
[August 4, 2003, 14:10]
SDSL needs a better sell
Leader BT should have been quicker to learn from the success of ADSL, where take-up exploded into life once retail prices dropped below £30 a month. BT's admission this week that most SDSL-enabled exchanges have precisely 0 SDSL users casts a shadow over...
[August 24, 2005, 14:15]
Oftel ruling will not mean cheaper Internet
News For its part, Energis says it "will be reviewing cost-saving implications with our customers on an individual basis," but declined to speculate further on whether retail prices might fall. The cost of flat-rate Internet access is unlikely to fall...
[July 21, 2003, 14:47]
London losing lustre as data-centre destination
News BT leases 6,000 square metres of data-centre space within London and 27 data centres across the UK, processing information for government departments and major players in the finance, telecommunication and retail industries.
[February 28, 2008, 10:00]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
News As yet DataStream has failed to deliver the competition in the wholesale broadband market, and, in turn, in the retail broadband market, that had been hoped of it," it says in the report. A group of MPs has warned that Britain's broadband market...
[February 10, 2004, 16:50]
Asda takes on BT with 20 percent off national calls
News Not content with battling other supermarket giants, Asda, now owned by U.S.retail behemoth WalMart, is set to go head to head with British Telecom by offering cut-price telephone calls. The Asda spokeswoman laid down a challenge to BT.
[October 4, 1999, 11:45]
GPRS price war unlikely, say analysts
News The Vodafone deal is only available from Vodafone retail stores, but most people buy their phones from Carphone Warehouse anyway," he said. Analysts believe that Vodafone's decision to offer a cut-price GPRS service is unlikely to force BT Cellnet...
[June 1, 2001, 17:43]
Breathe to launch unmetered offer
News In January GUS, which owns the Argos retail chain, paid a bargain-basement £1.4m for Breathe, a company once worth more than £100m. Chief executive Shaun Gardener said the new service would be based on British Telecommunications' (quote: BT) Friaco...
[February 26, 2001, 13:13]
