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BT: 21CN rollout timescale was squeezed
News BT's delayed £10bn network upgrade should have taken a full decade to install, according to one of the telco's top executives. Instead BT decided to try to complete the upgrade in just five years, due to the cost pressures of running its complex...
[November 22, 2006, 10:51]
BT 21CN chief resigns
News The chief executive who created BT's £10bn national network has resigned. Dr Paul Reynolds, one of the key business leaders behind the network, 21CN, will leave BT in September. He is to become the chief executive of Telecom New Zealand, the...
[June 28, 2007, 9:18]
BT prepares to start 21CN upgrades
News BT is gearing up to shift some of its existing customers on to its brand spanking new all-IP network, known as the 21CN. The first customers to make the change, all located in the Cardiff area, will be swapped to the 21CN over the course of the...
[September 5, 2006, 8:20]
BT loses another 21CN executive
News The chief executive behind BT's £10bn national network, 21CN, has resigned just six months into the job. The telco announced on Tuesday that Andy Green will leave to become chief executive of services specialist LogicaCMG on 1 January, 2008.
[October 9, 2007, 13:05]
Ofcom: No public funding for 21CN competitors
News The chief executive of Ofcom, Ed Richards, has dismissed the idea of public money being used to fund an alternative next-generation network. In an interview with the regulation-related blog Ofcomwatch, Richards denied that a serious competitor to...
[April 11, 2007, 17:49]
BT to offer 21CN experience overseas
News BT says it will use its experience of setting up a next-generation IP network in the UK to act as a consultant to telecommunications providers in other countries. The incumbent announced on Wednesday that it was launching a new business unit...
[December 6, 2006, 12:21]
Northern Ireland first to get 21CN completion
News Northern Ireland will be the first region in the UK where BT's next-generation broadband network will be completed, giving companies and residents access to a range of next-generation telecoms services.
[February 22, 2007, 11:42]
Schoolgirl gets BT's 21CN rolling
News The first customer migrations to BT's next-generation communications network have begun in the Welsh village of Wick. On Tuesday, 11-year-old resident Laura Wess was scheduled to make the first call on 21CN (21st century network), to the Rt Rev...
[November 28, 2006, 12:55]
Engineering BT to 21CN
News 'Innovation' is a word that Matt Bross, CTO of BT, is fond of bandying around when talking about BT's strategy. But is it just an abstract noun he likes to pump out alongside PowerPoint presentations or is there some weight behind his words?
[September 22, 2005, 15:00]
BT launches VPN service for global 21CN platform
News BT has introduced Intelligent Virtual Private Network, the first service for its global 21st Century Network. The iVPN service will let businesses access their corporate networks across any of 172 countries covered.
[March 6, 2009, 14:02]
Engineering BT to 21CN
Talkback The only thing I remember BT doing is holding back on Broadband until someone kicked them in the balls and told them to get on with it
[September 22, 2005, 22:33]
Ofcom hints at 21CN regulation
News Ofcom may regulate BT's next-generation network in much the same way it forced the telecoms giant to open up its current broadband infrastructure to rival operators. Strong hints that this could be the case can be found throughout a paper published...
[November 24, 2006, 12:33]
Video: BT's 21CN is 'on time and on budget'
News As one of the top executives behind the creation of BT's £10bn next-generation network, Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT wholesale, has a unique view of this deeply complex and controversial project.
[April 18, 2007, 16:21]
21CN - impact on business users
Talkback You mention the Communications Management Association - we have been engaged with Ofcom and BT on this subject since the summer and have already held two large workshops, with a third planned for March (by which time the main results of the...
[December 8, 2006, 9:41]
BT Wholesale names chief executive
News Sally Davis will succeed Paul Reynolds as chief executive of BT Wholesale. Reynolds, who was responsible for much of 21CN, the £10bn upgrade to the telco's UK network, is due to leave in September, when he will become chief executive of Telecom New...
[July 25, 2007, 15:11]
BT next-gen network to roll out from November
News Rollout of BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) will start in November following successful trials, the telecoms giant said on Wednesday. In a test situation using multi-service access nodes (MSANs) at Cambridge and Woolwich, the system — which will...
[July 26, 2006, 16:30]
BT's next-generation network delayed
News The £10bn transformation of BT's network is facing delays of at least a year. The upgrade to BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) was previously scheduled for completion by 2010, but now the telco has quietly moved its deadline back to 2011.
[September 26, 2006, 17:10]
T-Mobile and 3 build up mobile-broadband resources
News T-Mobile and 3 have signed a backhaul deal with BT Wholesale that will see 7,500 of their base station sites connected to BT's 21CN next-generation broadband network. The mobile operators, who signed the deal through their joint-venture company...
[October 6, 2008, 13:58]
BT loves open systems - true?
Leader With a flourish worthy of a Napoleonic sea captain surprising the enemy, BT has run down the colours of proprietary protocols and hoist the open standard over 21CN -- its 21st Century Network. This looks bold, but is entirely necessary.
[February 22, 2005, 11:10]
BT: It's IP or bust
News BT has vowed to rip out much of its existing telecoms infrastructure by the end of the decade, as it pushes on with its 21st Century Network (21CN). Speaking at the FT World Telecommunications Conference in London on Tuesday, Dr Paul Reynolds...
[December 6, 2005, 16:15]
