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Bonfield Deflects Government Grilling
News Managing director Sir Peter Bonfield faced a grilling from the Trade and Industry select committee as part of its investigation into unbundling of the local loop, the process which will allow other companies to compete on an equal footing with BT.
[December 20, 2000, 10:03]
BT's Bonfield Says No To Free Local Calls
News In an interview with the BBC Thursday, British Telecom's chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield, said his company had no plans to introduce free local telephone calls. There have been rumours that BT (quote: BT.was looking at introducing free local...
[April 13, 2000, 9:27]
Cook Slams Bonfield's Bumper Pay-off
News The £3m pay-off awarded to departing BT chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield was criticised by senior Labour MP Robin Cook on Thursday. As well as receiving £1.4m in cash, Bonfield's will also be paid an extra £350,000 of pension payments and £1.3...
[November 2, 2001, 6:30]
BT's Bonfield To Quit After MmO2 Demerger
News Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive of British Telecommunications (BT), is to leave his post at the end of January, nearly a year earlier than planned. The move, announced late on Tuesday, confirmed speculation that Bonfield would leave early after...
[October 31, 2001, 11:01]
BT Silent On Rumours Of Bonfield's Early Exit
News Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive of BT, is rumoured to be planning to leave his post six months earlier than planned. According to Friday's Financial Times, Bonfield is thought likely to stand down next summer.
[October 12, 2001, 14:22]
BT's Bonfield Rejects Calls For Lower ADSL Prices
News Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive of BT, has warned that ADSL pricing is unlikely to fall in the foreseeable future, and called upon the government to implement the advice of its own broadband taskforce.
[October 3, 2001, 13:06]
Sack Bonfield, Says Institute Of Directors Chief
News BT's Internet woes continue Thursday as head of e-business at the Institute of Directors Jim Norton calls for chairman Sir Peter Bonfield to be sacked. Norton is equally scathing of BT's handling of both the narrowband and broadband access markets...
[September 28, 2000, 15:55]
BT Boss Grilled By Select Committee On Unbundling
News The telco was put on the defensive as the Trade and Industry select committee grilled managing director Sir Peter Bonfield over the way his company is handling unbundling the local loop. Bonfield claimed the telco was on schedule to meet the...
[December 20, 2000, 12:31]
News Roundup: BT Must Face Up To Its Debt Problem
News Managing director Sir Peter Bonfield needs to pay off a third of his company's £30bn debt as promised last November but in the current tech climate that is looking increasingly difficult. Wed, 21 Mar Calls for the heads of BT chiefs Bonfield and...
[March 21, 2001, 11:22]
Analysis: BT Faces Dilemma Over Debt
News If, on the other hand, it wants to save chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield's head, it could always ask the government for its 3G money back. Bonfield has pledged to pay off £10bn of that by the end of 2001.
[March 14, 2001, 14:10]
Positive Reaction To The New Wave BT
News Bonfield is hopeful Yell will be worth "a lot of money" but is giving nothing away about which will float next. BT splits its fixed line business into wholesale and retail arms and creates four new businesses designed to put BT "ahead of the wave...
[April 13, 2000, 16:00]
BT Pulls Plug On Shareholder Meeting
News One possible reason for the cancellation is that the timing is just too sensitive, as speculation increases about an imminent float of BT Wireless and the sacrifice of chairman Sir Iain Vallance and managing director Sir Peter Bonfield to angry...
[March 20, 2001, 11:46]
BT In University Partnership To Stimulate Research
News The partnership -- announced at Adastral Park, the new technology park based at BT's famous Martlesham Heath research facility in Ipswich -- was opened by BT chief executive Sir Peter Bonfield and provost of UCL Professor Chris Llewellyn-Smith.
[March 26, 2001, 11:17]
Roundup: BT's New Wave
News BT's Bonfield says no to free local calls - Free local calls are not on the agenda says Bonfield. BT got a facelift this week, setting up four new businesses and splitting its fixed line business into wholesale and retail sections.
[April 14, 2000, 16:12]
Jane Wakefield: Take Me Back To The Good Old Days Of BT
News When Peter Bonfield made his let them eat cake remark -- advising those who couldn't afford Internet access at home to get down to their local schools -- Net fans across the country were outraged. Vallance, obviously jealous at Bonfield's ability...
[December 3, 1999, 16:53]
Former ICL Chief To Lead Broadband Advisory Group
News He had been appointed five year's earlier, replacing Sir Peter Bonfield who moved to become BT's chief executive. BT's new chief executive, Ben Verwaayen, who took over from Bonfield this month, claimed that the BSG was capable of "dramatically...
[February 11, 2002, 15:45]
Jane Wakefield: No Room At The Inn
News It was a fitting end to the year that the BT bully boys, with Sir Peter Bonfield playing the role of Gripper Stebson, found themselves hauled before the government to answer supposedly tough questions about why it had repeatedly let consumers and...
[December 22, 2000, 12:39]
BT's Shares Drop On Strong Earnings
News Prices are falling, competitors are introducing all sorts of products and we've got to fight back," Chief Executive Peter Bonfield said on CNN television. Bonfield said the company will continue to offer ISDN after ADSL is rolled out, despite the...
[May 18, 2000, 15:30]
Jane Wakefield: Once Upon A Time There Was The Net
News Bonfield had meant to promote a new BT service which will see colleges, schools and libraries across the UK given unmetered access with a 50 percent discount. Meanwhile, Big Bad BT was still on the prowl, with chief wolf Peter Bonfield telling...
[November 8, 1999, 12:12]
BT Splits But Experts Question Whether It Is Enough
News There would be a "significant" change in "style and nature", Bonfield said. Describing himself as a "decentralist", Bonfield admitted that BT could no longer continue to function in a centralised way.
[November 9, 2000, 14:51]
