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Cable & Wireless launches enterprise VoIP service
News The telco expects voice to be the "killer application" that drives UK businesses towards the adoption of IP. Hoggarth claims that Cable & Wireless is the first UK telco to offer a managed VoIP service for businesses.
[June 17, 2004, 15:25]
BT Fusion: watershed or washout?
News The telco's fixed-and-mobile hybrid phone could be unveiled within weeks The telco is launching a trial next month that will see voice calls run over both GSM and wireless LANs from the same device, as it gears up for the second-generation Bluephone
[June 15, 2005, 15:50]
T-Online rejects chatrooms from its IM service
News According to MessageVine -- the company which is providing the IM technology to T-Online -- the telco is very conscious of the issue of chatroom danger. T-Online is unique in being the first European telco to use a software vendor to provide the IM...
[April 19, 2001, 13:58]
Jane Wakefield: Iceland's online Nirvana
News Olafur Stephensen, head of corporate communications at Siminn, Iceland's state-owned telco, believes Icelanders, in common with their other Scandanavian neighbours, are just very receptive to new technology.
[October 18, 2000, 12:56]
UK wholesale broadband uncompetitive - regulators
News The telco will continue to be the subject of eight separate regulatory obligations, in an attempt to prevent it abusing its position. On Tuesday, though, the telco insisted that it had earned the label through its investment in broadband during the...
[December 16, 2003, 12:25]
Jane Wakefield: High Noon at BT
News And with 120,000 employees and a self-confessed admittance it is "lumbering", the telco was just too big to react quickly to new markets and new ideas. Previous memorable press occasions include the now-famous lollipop man speech from chairman Iain...
[April 14, 2000, 15:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Nevertheless, the agency concerned has the job of handling an ad campaign (which you've seen) for the business division of the telco, and the memo in question concerned the relationship between them. The memo went on at some length concerning the...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
MPs flirt with BT break-up
News Baroness Cohen of Pimlico told Ben Verwaayen, BT's chief executive, that the telco had taken too long to offer broadband at a low enough price to make it popular with consumers. The legacy of all the mud thrown at the UK's incumbent telco by...
[June 11, 2002, 12:09]
AOL delivers unmetered nationwide
News The telco believed it had satisfied industry calls for unmetered access with SurfTime, which allowed ISPs to offer flat-rate services. Secondly he believes the fact that AOL is the only ISP that is telco-independent gave it an advantage.
[November 8, 2000, 11:54]
Oftel forces BT to co-mingle for ADSL
News Oftel has rejected BT's concerns, claiming that the telco already gives its contractors unsupervised access to its exchanges. This is fair, given the importance of the equipment," insisted the telco's spokesman.
[October 11, 2001, 17:45]
Customers slam BT over ISDN charges
News The spokesman denies it is another tactic for the telco to hold on to its customer base. As BT's half year results loom -- due next week -- speculation is mounting that the telco will announce it is to split itself in two.
[October 31, 2000, 11:40]
Australian bush WiMax network gets go-ahead
News The telco and the Minister are now engaged in a court case after Telstra alleged Coonan refused to give the company access to papers revealing how the winning tender was selected. The minister rejected Telstra's assertions saying the case resulted...
[September 10, 2007, 11:57]
Jane Wakefield: No room at the inn
News The no room at the inn line (or lie depending on your view) is the latest excuse from a telco which has done little else but invent pretexts all year. OK, I admit that the link between the baby Jesus and BT is a tenuous one and the tale of...
[December 22, 2000, 12:39]
BT turns phone boxes into base stations
News BT won't say how much extra money it will make from the scheme but it is not, the telco admits, going to make a big dent in the telco's debt. The Financial Times estimates the sell-off could earn the telco up to £1bn.
[April 12, 2001, 14:09]
Businesses told to gang up for broadband
News Around 1,000 of BT's local exchanges are now ADSL-enabled, covering over 60 percent of the British population, but the telco has concentrated on densely populated areas where there are more customers.
[January 31, 2002, 11:29]
Telcos consider consortium to fight BT
News With wholesales prices three times higher than Gibson believes they need to be, the telco has taken its dispute back to Oftel. Another telco, Redstone, has got around the cost of getting equipment into BT's exchanges by locating outside but this is...
[May 8, 2001, 11:46]
Superfast DSL shows its pace
News It is absolutely essential that VDSL chip suppliers be familiar with both ATM (the standard telco voice and data protocol) and Ethernet, particularly for central-office applications," Richard Sekar, vice president of marketing at Ikanos, told...
[March 11, 2002, 14:00]
MPs: Government must subsidise rural broadband
News The MPs have recommended that the government should spend public money to make broadband available in places where it isn't economically viable for a telco to build high-speed networks. BT is unlikely to set many more trigger levels as it is simply...
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
Broadband project shrugs off BT delays
News However, the telco did deny some of FDM Broadband's allegations. According to Sir George, FDM's launch in Kingsclere should encourage other communities who want broadband but find they can't get it from a major telco.
[January 27, 2004, 8:30]
World Online leaves Internet customers in the lurch
News But telephone calls through the alternative telco Servista.com will be more expensive. A significant proportion of World Online's customers have already agreed to return to BT, but the British telco is still in negotiation with Tiscali and the...
[June 29, 2001, 16:31]
