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BT Engineers Assist Tsunami Relief Effort
News As technology companies rallied to support the relief effort following the Indian Ocean tsunami, seven BT engineers flew to Indonesia on Tuesday to help restore telecommunication services in one of the worst-hit regions.
[January 4, 2005, 14:00]
BT's Day Of Reckoning: Oftel Acts On SurfTime
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel on Friday issued a major blow to BT's SurfTime service, ordering the telco to offer a wholesale version to other operators. Oftel agrees and ordered BT (quote: BT) to have the wholesale version in place by 1 June.
[May 30, 2000, 10:08]
BT's Wi-Fi Voucher Strangeness
Blog BT has announced a new roaming voucher for its business traveller customers, based largely on a tie-in with the soon-to-go-live iBahn network of hotel hotspots. According to BT Openzone general manager Chris Bruce, "the international travel voucher...
[October 31, 2007, 8:56]
BT Eyes IPods In Entertainment Push
News BT is moving deeper into the media business by launching a division that will supply online games and other audiovisual content, to broadband subscribers. The operation, which is called BT Entertainment, will begin work in January 2005.
[November 30, 2004, 16:45]
BT Loses Operations Chief To Logica CMG
Blog Andy Green is to leave BT after 21 years. Green led BT's international business sales as CEO of BT Global Services for 6 years from 2001 until BT's restructuring earlier this year. The telco's CEO of group strategy and operations will become the...
[October 9, 2007, 9:32]
BT Tradespace Ties In With PayPal
Blog BT has announced that businesses using its Tradespace service will now be able to add PayPal functionality to their websites there. BT tells me that people have made good use of the service since it launched in April, but we are of course keen to...
[August 21, 2007, 16:02]
BT's ADSL Excuse - Industry Wants The Truth
News ISPs and experts have expressed bafflement at BT's (quote: BT) latest excuse for failing to deliver ADSL, claiming there are hordes of people wanting to get their hands on the high speed technology. The reaction follows the fourth delay from BT...
[June 29, 2000, 15:50]
BT's Balanced Approach To Accessibility
Blog BT's now in on the act too, but it's OK - it's all in the name of accessibility. Bearing in mind that mice and keyboards can be a bit fiddly for the disabled and elderly, BT has created an accelerometer chip-based adaptor called BT Balance, which...
[April 30, 2007, 15:49]
BT's Smartphone Materialises
Blog Remember how we told you about two months ago that BT was moving into the smartphone market with the HTC S620? The SIP-enabled (and QWERTY-keyboarded) handset should be perfect for VoIP - BT is certainly punting it as such, offering free calls from...
[April 16, 2007, 12:54]
BT Offers Unmetered Access, But Only In Towns
News A deal struck between British Telecommunications and telco WorldCom was paraded Wednesday as evidence that BT is on the side of unmetered access in the UK. AltaVista and other ISPs struggling to maintain unmetered services under BT's current...
[August 23, 2000, 14:55]
BT's SurfTime Is A Flop
News Despite spending an estimated £20m on its marketing campaign BT has attracted just 200,000 users to its SurfTime service, it emerges Wednesday. The figure is well below BT's expectations and represents a significant embarrassment for the country's...
[August 24, 2000, 7:00]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback re: Harold Oak question yes very much so lots of ERS & EMS from the BT Guy. You can hear it go to the Radio4 www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/
[September 29, 2004, 17:51]
BT To Sell Eutelsat Stake For £363m
News BT has announced it is to sell its stake in Eutelsat for £363m. BT has previously sold off its holdings in other satellite firms, including Inmarsat and Intelsat. BT is not the first telco to bail out of Eutelsat.
[November 26, 2004, 11:45]
Exclusive: BT Forced To Offer Better Unmetered Solution For ISPs
News ZDNet UK News has learned that BT (quote: BT) has been forced to rewrite its Friaco unmetered offering following intense negotiations with WorldCom, the network carrier that complained about BT following the announcement of SurfTime.
[July 19, 2000, 15:31]
BT To Offer Cheaper Wi-Fi To Its Mobile Users
News BT is about to give its mobile customers discounted access to its Wi-Fi network. Steve Andrews, BT Group chief of mobility and convergence, said on Friday that the offer was one part of the telco's drive to strengthen its virtual mobile operations.
[November 19, 2004, 16:05]
BT Acts To Combat Broadband Slowdown
News BT has begun testing a piece of software that could mean faster surfing for ADSL users, amid concerns that the boom in broadband take-up is impacting on connection speeds. The application will change the size of the data packets sent by an ADSL...
[December 23, 2002, 16:18]
BT Doubles Business Broadband Speeds, For Free
Talkback BT have been overcharging for these business products for ages. BT wholesale charge about £32 for the 1MBIT product, and sell this to other ISP's including BT Retail. BT Retail have been selling this for £100 compared to other ISP's selling it for...
[September 29, 2004, 20:29]
BT Fixes Broadband Glitch
News BT believes it has fixed a technical problem that meant broadband was unavailable to many customers at several newly upgraded local exchanges. BT would not disclose which manufacturer was responsible,, but explained that it was a new model of line...
[December 23, 2002, 11:15]
BT Picks BlackBerrys For Europe
News BT on Monday struck a deal with Research In Motion to market RIM's BlackBerry mobile email and personal information management system in Europe. Two co-branded devices, the 7230 and 7730, will aim to help BT's mobile business customers access email...
[November 16, 2004, 8:30]
BT Faces Legal Action Over Unbundling
News A consortium of businesses is to take legal action against BT over its slow roll out of broadband, ZDNet News has learnt. Unbundling of the local loop is widely regarded as the single most important factor in bringing cheap and competitive ADSL...
[July 25, 2000, 16:56]
