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BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

...a marketing campaign, which was carried on when the company was renamed British Telecom in 1980. Shown here performing what is now an illegal act... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

...IIIs were still in commercial use with GPO Telephones, the forerunner of British Telecom, in 1981. Engineers kept them running through replacement parts from redundant... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Cameron announces plan for 'East London Tech City'

...an innovation centre to focus on its smart and connected community programme. British Telecom will also roll out superfast broadband in the Shoreditch and Old... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Jack Clark
Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns

Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns

...guideline to create flexible and agile solutions. This paper will demonstrate how British Telecom defined Universal Application Framework using OEA and Fusion Middleware technologies Read more

14 August, 2010

Broadband backlash building for BT

British Telecom (quote: BT) could face an industry backlash over its sluggishness in... Read more

25 September, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

BT faces more shame in hyperlink row, say experts

British Telecom believes it owns a 14 year US patent for the World... Read more

20 June, 2000 by Richard Barry

BT claims hyperlink patent ownership

British Telecom believes it owns the US patent for the World Wide Web... Read more

20 June, 2000 by Richard Barry

British Telecom Internet reorg forges ahead

In the latest milestone toward British Telecom's (quote: BT) planned massive restructuring, the incumbent telecommunications provider has... Read more

3 April, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

3G licensees face new cash crunch

...expected for European carriers to begin making revenues from the expensive technology. British Telecom subsidiary Manx Telecom, on the Isle of Man, said this week... Read more

25 April, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

A Year Ago: Oftel says July 2001 'delay' won't affect UK

...can play catch up... Telecoms watchdog Oftel announced Tuesday that it requires British Telecom to unbundle its local loop by July 2001. During a Q... Read more

30 November, 2000 by Richard Barry

Oftel on a leash

...Oftel has let the business community down, badly, as far as deregulating British Telecom goes. But the question you might just ask is this: who... Read more

9 October, 2000 by Guy Kewney

Update: AltaVista MD resigns amid unmetered flak

...flat rate, despite ongoing problems procuring a wholesale unmetered access package from British Telecom (quote: BT). Mitchell has admitted the company was over-hasty in... Read more

30 August, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Freeserve to sign up 100,000 DSL users

...drive adoption "into the millions". Freeserve and other ISPs will be reselling British Telecom's DSL service. Broadband services such as DSL and cable-modems... Read more

29 August, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Oftel unveils controversial ADSL plans

...the telecoms watchdog has issued concrete guidelines for allowing competitive access to British Telecom's (quote: BT) local copper wiring. (See the document's full... Read more

1 August, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Oftel unbundling guidelines look set for EC clash

...by then, according to an EC spokesman. However, Oftel's guidelines require British Telecom (quote: BT) to begin giving its competitors access to the local... Read more

1 August, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

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