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Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test
Talkback I remember when BT were making £1m profit a minute (alledgedly)- now they are turning customers away. BT are "crying wolf", they can deliver a service without the need for trigger levels - and the rollout of ADSL underpins BTs 10 year strategy...
[October 21, 2003, 16:19]
'Midband' will ease the broadband divide, says BT
News BT has unveiled details of a new product that could make high-speed Internet access available to 97 percent of the UK population. He said the Midband service is being developed because even under the best conditions, BT's ADSL network is only...
[November 19, 2002, 16:01]
News Burst: EC probes BT, AT&T deal
News Although BT said the investigation was expected, the EU's anti-trust experts cited several areas of the deal that caused concern -- the duo's Market shares in the provision of global telecoms services to large corporations and carrier services to...
[December 7, 1998, 17:44]
AOL challenges BT over ADSL
News AOL turns its attention to broadband Thursday and promises BT it is prepared for a fight. The ISP has been one of BT's greatest critics, lobbying for unmetered access for the last two years. Now Friaco (BT's wholesale unmetered offering) is...
[September 29, 2000, 10:26]
Megabeam's Wi-Fi service undercuts BT
News Wi-Fi operator Megabeam is giving early adopters the chance to buy two years' worth of access to its hot spot network for less than £25 per month, which is significantly cheaper than BT's rival service.
[November 7, 2002, 13:34]
Ofcom must keep firm grip on BT
News One of Ofcom's key challenges over the next decade will be to ensure that telcos such as BT do not abuse their powerful position in the UK's telecoms market, according to a government report published on Monday.
[December 3, 2002, 16:40]
NTL wireless trial ends in failure
News The city's grid system also means some BT phone lines are too long to carry a broadband connection. BT is currently testing ways of extending the reach of its broadband products. NTL has announced that it will not launch a commercial high-speed...
[August 17, 2004, 17:05]
Success eludes mobile banking
News British Telecom (quote: BT) is the only UK network to have rolled out commercial GPRS, and even BT is hampered by the fact that there are only a limited number of handsets available using the system. Most high street banks have launched mobile...
[March 28, 2001, 15:49]
MmO2 sells off Dutch unit
News Mobile phone giant mm02, formerly known as BT Wireless, has announced it is to sell its Dutch operation, O2 Netherlands, for £17m. The unit was previously known as Telfort Mobiel prior to the O2 rebranding, which also saw UK operator BT Cellnet...
[April 15, 2003, 13:02]
Works, kind of, well just
Member Review I bought this from Amazon and it took two minutes to setup and configure with two Netgear wireless PCMCIA cards and my ISP (BT). I updated the firmware after session hangs and wireless dropouts and this seemed to make things worse.
[December 1, 2004, 15:10]
First GPRS data cards arrive
News Next generation wireless technology took a small step Monday when BT Cellnet announced what it claims is the first GPRS data card for laptops and PDAs. The card will work on the BT Cellnet GPRS network at speeds of around 27kbit/s, compared to the...
[July 17, 2000, 16:35]
Broadband pricing row heats up
News Wed 6 Feb: Cable & Wireless insist that making BT demerge its local telephone exchanges would benefit the UK telecoms industry, including BT itself BT throws down broadband gauntlet Operator tries to block BT broadband price cuts
[February 9, 2002, 6:31]
ISM Band Coexistence
White Papers The license-free nature of these bands has made them attractive for use by various commercial applications/communication protocols such as Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Bluetooth (BT), cordless telephones, baby monitors, wireless security...
[November 13, 2009, 0:21]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog BT goes on record in front of a Parliamentary select committee to say that it will take "ten to 20" years to wire up the rest of the country -- especially the rural bits -- for broadband. BT has adopted almost none of it -- yet it still complains...
[February 8, 2002, 15:58]
Telcos bring broadband to Scottish isles
News Thus operates high-speed wireless connections between the islands and the mainland, so BT Scotland is leasing capacity on these links -- giving individuals and businesses on the islands a link to BT's network on the mainland.
[October 6, 2003, 17:20]
Telecoms takeover frenzy as Thus targets Energis
News Thus and Cable & Wireless (C&W) have clashed in a battle to buy fellow telco Energis, as both strive to compete better against industry leader BT. C&W is reported to be offering around £710m for Energis, which is the third-largest UK telecoms firm...
[August 15, 2005, 16:30]
3G debt threatens future of telecommunications
News The amount companies such as BT, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom have now committed to pay as much to get UMTS (or 3G) up and running is now equal to the value of the entire European telecommunications industry today, according to analyst group Bear...
[November 15, 2000, 14:51]
02 shows its hand for 3G services
News It brings together GPRS, 3G and wireless LAN connectivity, through deals with The Cloud and BT Openzone. The operator has settled on a combined wireless offering called O2 Connection Manager. They are being supplied by Novatel Wireless, which has...
[September 28, 2004, 12:25]
Convergence: One handset is better than two
News The idea is that, when customers come into an office using a BT Broadband line and are within 25 metres of a specialised wireless base station, phone calls or data sessions will be transmitted from the base station to the handset.
[May 17, 2005, 15:25]
Handspring's explanation adds to Visor confusion
News The company's focus will, however, shift more and more towards wireless products like the upcoming Treo, which will ship to the UK next month and be offered through the mmO2 wireless network, formerly BT Cellnet.
[January 21, 2002, 14:00]
