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BT calls for Euro-wide telecoms regulations
News BT has released research that claims huge benefits to the European economy if telecoms regulation was harmonised across the continent, allowing more consistent IT contracts and services for multinational companies.
[April 7, 2008, 13:18]
BT to run fast fibre to 2.5m homes
News BT will run optical fibre directly to 2.5 million UK homes and businesses for high-speed broadband access, a move that analysts say will give its network longer life. The fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) rollout will bring broadband speeds of up to...
[October 9, 2009, 16:57]
BT accuses government over 3G 'tax'
News Argument over 3G heats up as BT launches bitter attack, claiming the auction process was nothing but a back-door tax In one of the harshest attacks yet on the hugely expensive auction for third generation mobile licences, BT Ignite's chief...
[May 10, 2001, 13:21]
BT trials FTTH
Talkback And to think that BT used to be in the forefront of technological advancement ! Bell Canada successfully built and tested their first trial area for FTTH in 1980, yes, almost 30 YEARS ago in Toronto.
[August 11, 2009, 9:33]
BT makes waves in IT services
News BT Global Services chief executive Andy Green has forecast revenues from Chinese, Indian, Japanese and US markets will double by the 2008/09 financial year. Speaking at the BT Global Services Update 2006 today, Green said: "We have very ambitious...
[September 15, 2006, 15:45]
BT fixing fibre-optic broadband problem
News BT is close to fixing a long-running network problem that means almost 30,000 homes currently cannot get ADSL because they are connected to the local exchange by optical fibre. Back in the 1980s, BT used fibre-optic cable to connect some of its...
[April 11, 2003, 14:39]
BT
Talkback I think BT should get out of the telecoms market. Next BT will be expecting us to pay more for the improved service which our taxes provide! The advertising hype does not seem to meet the reality. Bills go up, service quality reduces.
[August 20, 2009, 13:37]
BT unites mobile and fixed business telephony
News BT has extended its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) strategy into businesses, with the announcement of technology to shift staff mobile calls onto company IP networks. The system, known as Corporate Fusion and launched on Thursday, uses a similar...
[September 14, 2006, 14:45]
BT 'on track' for NHS deadlines
News BT claims it is "back on track" to deliver on its billion-dollar IT contract with the NHS, despite high-profile problems with some of its key contractors and criticism over missed deadlines. The spokesperson conceded that "in the early days there...
[September 14, 2006, 12:50]
BT accused of customer retention hypocrisy
News BT has registered a complaint with regulator Ofcom claiming broadband provider Unicom is breaking wholesale line rental rules by trying to convince customers thinking of leaving the smaller telco to change their minds.
[September 12, 2006, 16:50]
BT brings call-centre jobs from India back to UK
News BT is cutting its call-centre workforce in India by 4,000 and bringing some of the work back to the UK, the telco confirmed on Thursday. The cuts all fall within BT Retail and involve only third-party call-centre staff rather than direct BT...
[July 17, 2009, 8:30]
BT wins £99m MoD comms deal
News BT on Thursday announced a five-year, £99m contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to manage voice and data networks across 197 military bases. The deal broadens the Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) agreement, under which BT is...
[July 16, 2009, 17:34]
BT set to take broadband lead again
News ntl:Telewest's March merger made it the UK's biggest broadband service provider, but it's likely to cede the top position back to BT Retail by the end of the year, according to a new study. As a result, ntl:Telewest's broadband growth has slowed...
[September 12, 2006, 13:25]
BT ready to roll with 8Mbps ADSL
Talkback I hope BT doesn't charge an arm & a leg for this service. UK is already one of the most expensive places to get broadband.
[October 15, 2005, 20:45]
BT launches broadband, but delays persist
News BT's long-awaited ADSL service -- BTopenworld -- launched Monday but you won't get your hands on it straight away. Critics have accused BT of deliberately delaying ADSL roll out in order to protect its ISDN business.
[August 29, 2000, 7:11]
BT to sell Cisco storage technology
News BT is to offer Cisco virtual storage solutions that highlight unused hard disk space on enterprise networks. A spokesman for BT said: "The idea is that you can make best use of storage resources using spare capacity from other users.
[October 11, 2004, 18:00]
News Roundup: BT's unmetered Net access plan
News This week BT finally bowed to pressure from the government, industry, Oftel and users and offered unmetered access . BT intends to sit down with Oftel and other operators to work out how Surftime can be made available via operators other than BT.
[December 8, 1999, 11:21]
BT launches mobile TV service
News BT has announced the launch of its mobile broadcast TV service, Movio, with partner Virgin Mobile. BT claims Movio is the first wholesale service in the world to include live TV, DAB radio, a seven-day programme guide and "red-button" interactivity...
[September 7, 2006, 11:30]
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. According to a BT spokesman, customers should experience a "fairly seamless" changeover from the old network to the 21CN.
[September 5, 2006, 8:20]
BT ready to roll with 8Mbps ADSL
Talkback Yet the UK and BT seem not to know where Aberdeen is and BT continually fails to provide the fastest communication service to this vital and important city. Aberdeen is the oil producer and production capital of Europe.
[October 17, 2005, 13:52]
