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BT Group - MPLS-Based IP VPNs Built On Cisco IOS Software Enable Streamlined And "Applications-Aware" Enterprise Network Services
White Papers BT Group is recognized as one of the leading providers of data networking services in Europe. BT Global Services worked closely with Cisco Systems to become the first international service provider to simplify VPNs over Internet Protocol (IP...
[February 19, 2005, 23:00]
'Shared Risk' Approach Under Consideration By BT Services Group
News BT is bullish about the future of its IT business and claims to be "looking very carefully" at a shared risk model of providing organisations' communications and IT needs. While deals such as those from the NHS -- which cumulatively should bring in...
[June 18, 2004, 15:55]
BT Wages War On 'cyber-slacking'
News BT Group on Thursday unveiled a new business targeting SMEs who are riddled with inefficiencies resulting from email and Web abuse. BT has invested £3m in setting up the company, called Open Orchard, and has committed a further £3m for the next...
[October 31, 2002, 15:17]
BT Results See Revenues Falter
News BT Group's first quarter results show a slight dip compared to the corresponding quarter - turnover was down from £4.586bn to £4.567bn, although pre-tax profit showed a rise from £512m to £536m. BT Group operating costs rose by £74m in the quarter...
[July 29, 2004, 16:55]
Analysts Wary Of 'underperforming' BT
News Shares in BT Group slid by nearly 1 percent on Wednesday ahead of the publication of its first-quarter results on Thursday, following suggestions that the company is underperforming in relation to the overall telecoms market.
[July 26, 2006, 17:35]
BT Appoints Chief Broadband Officer
News Ritchie -- currently the chief executive of BT's ISP, BTopenworld -- will direct BT's policy on broadband developments across the whole of the BT Group. Its competitors may be curious to know how she can continue to head up BTopenworld while...
[November 11, 2002, 12:21]
BT Pulls The Plug On 2,200 Call Centre Jobs
News Where that is not possible, we are looking at alternative options across BT Group, including non-call centre work. In a move to reduce costs BT Retail is cutting 2,200 jobs over the next two years from its call centres.
[March 27, 2002, 17:35]
BT Results Defy Analysts
News BT Group's first-quarter results for the current financial year were released on Thursday to show a growth in revenue of £153m (2.8 percent) - slightly higher than analysts had expected. If you are replacing traditional business with new business...
[July 27, 2006, 14:55]
Do BT Customers Get Satisfaction?
News BT has hit back at a major survey which suggested only 34 percent of its home broadband users are "very satisfied" with the service. But BT has pointed to its own monthly survey of 1,500 BT Total Broadband subscribers, which found that 52 percent...
[August 7, 2006, 16:20]
BT's Model Of SOA Development
News Two years ago, BT Exact — BT Group's technology and IT operations division — announced a far-reaching project to develop a single design-and-delivery methodology for all future IT projects across the group.
[March 29, 2006, 11:25]
BT Unit Adds To RFID Momentum
News As more companies begin to disclose details of internal trials of radio frequency ID tags, BT has launched a new business group to focus on helping businesses with RFID projects. ZDNet UK has learnt that the group, known as BT Auto-ID Services...
[January 27, 2004, 16:15]
Broadband Alliance Takes Aim At BT
News It is due to be formally launched next month, but it's already clear that the group is determined to keep alive the row over BT Datastream -- the wholesale product that lets telcos offer to ISPs broadband packages that run over their own backbone...
[October 20, 2003, 15:30]
Government Urges BT To Cut ADSL Costs
News The UK's e-commerce minister, backed by the government's Broadband Stakeholder Group, has called on BT to boost the rollout of broadband Internet services in the UK, by making more aggressive price cuts than it has managed so far.
[September 26, 2001, 11:52]
BT-MCI Merger Will Create World's Second Largest Telecoms Group
News BT this morning announced it has entered a $20 billion merger agreement with MCI the US's second largest telecoms group. The deal will recreate BT as a significant global force and make the new company the world's second largest telecoms group...
[November 4, 1996, 11:26]
MPs Unhappy Over ADSL Dominance
News A group of MPs has warned that Britain's broadband market could suffer because BT is the only company capable of running a national high-speed network at present. The Broadband Industry Group, which consists of a number of BT's competitors, has...
[February 10, 2004, 16:50]
BTopenworld Denies Cheating
News It follows a joint complaint from a group of operators, asking Oftel to ensure that BT competes fairly with other operators in the rollout of broadband services. We are confident, that as part of the BT group, we will continue to get a good deal.
[October 17, 2000, 7:28]
Broadband 'worth An Hour's Work A Week'
News The rollout of broadband networks across the UK will give a massive boost to the country's economy, but the promise is being held back by unfair pricing from BT, according to a new industry group formed by BT competitors.
[November 19, 2003, 12:30]
BT Announces Danon's Successor
News The successor to BT Retail CEO Pierre Danon has been named as current group finance director Ian Livingston. Livingston will in turn be replaced as finace director when that move goes through next February by Hanif Lalani, now CFO over at BT...
[December 13, 2004, 12:16]
BT Rivals Angered By Ofcom's Broadband Plans
News A group of UK telcos and ISPs have hit out at Britain's regulators for not forcing BT to change the way it prices certain broadband products. Ofcom and Oftel published a joint market review into the UK wholesale broadband sector on Tuesday that...
[December 18, 2003, 13:50]
BT Warned Against Selling Off Its Networks
News This followed an earlier bid from Earthlease, a group financed by a group of US financial institutions, for BT's local loop -- the part of the network between local exchanges and individual homes. BT could be making a big mistake if it accepted a...
[August 8, 2001, 14:25]
