Centrica Deploys Innovative Mobility Solution To Executives And Boosts Productivity By 90 Minutes Per User, Per Day
White Papers Senior employees at international energy supply group Centrica travel extensively throughout the world. Centrica decided to upgrade its IT systems to support the rollout of Microsoft Windows Mobile technology.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
ITSM Case Study: Centrica
White Papers Centrica is a leading provider of energy and other essential home services in the UK, with recent expansion into North America and Continental Europe. Centrica standardized IT processes on the ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) standard using HP...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Centrica To Challenge BT Over Broadband Services
News Services group Centrica looks set to challenge BT's dominance of the broadband market after buying Iomart's high-speed Internet operations. Iomart announced on Wednesday that it has sold its high-speed Internet services division to Centrica for £2m.
[January 9, 2002, 12:03]
Centrica Snaps Up One.Tel UK
News Service provider Centrica announced on Tuesday that it had bought One.Tel UK for £58m. Centrica, which owns British Gas and Scottish Gas, the AA and the Goldfish credit card company, already runs a telecoms service through its British Gas...
[July 3, 2001, 10:57]
Centrica And Cisco Systems: E-Working And IS Transformation
White Papers Centrica, a $32 bn global utility and services company, has made impressive progress through global e-working practices and IS transformation.
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Carphone Warehouse And Centrica Tipped For One.Tel Takeover
News With the future of troubled Australian telco One.Tel still unclear, it appears that its profitable UK operations will be bought by either Carphone Warehouse or Centrica. According to sources within One.Tel, it will come down to a straight fight...
[June 27, 2001, 16:00]
Let Them Come! BT Not Scared Of Energis/Centrica
News Energis, which supplies the telecommunications network for Freeserve, is rumoured to be in talks with Centrica to provide phone calls to the gas company's 18 million customers. BT spokesperson, Tony Henderson, said: "Telecommunications is a very...
[July 5, 1999, 15:54]
More ISPs React To Broadband Price Cuts
News It is owned by utility giant Centrica, which snapped up the broadband operations of Iomart back in January. At the time, it was suggested that Centrica was planning to use its marketing muscle to drive an aggressive policy towards broadband.
[March 5, 2002, 16:04]
SkillCheck Case Study: Direct Energy Essential Home Services
White Papers Direct Energy Essential Home Services, Canada's leading energy retailer and home services provider, is a division of Centrica plc, Britain's leading provider of retail energy with more than 44 million customer relationships worldwide.
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Onetel Picks Easynet For Faster Broadband
News Onetel, the telecommunications wing of utility giant Centrica, has teamed up with Easynet to offer its broadband services to businesses and consumers. Centrica now hopes to target the 4.4 million customers that are covered by Easynet's unbundled...
[July 29, 2005, 17:45]
HP Customers Still Searching For The Adaptive Enterprise
News I'm with you there," said Reg Palmer, OpenVMS systems manager and Tru64 administrator at Centrica, the company that owns British Gas, the AA and Onetel. As HP celebrated the first birthday of its vision of the "adaptive enterprise" in Munich this...
[May 5, 2004, 13:25]
OpenVMS Alive And Kicking On SuperDome
News We still run a lot of critical systems on VMS," said OpenVMS systems manager Reg Palmer of Centrica, the company that owns the AA and British Gas. OpenVMS, Hewlett-Packard's high-end operating system, which during the 90s moved from the old VAX...
[May 7, 2004, 10:05]
BT Aims To Dominate With No-frills Broadband
News One such company could be Centrica -- formerly known as British Gas -- which recently bought Iomart's broadband operations. The company is confident that millions of people in the UK will sign up for its BT Broadband product, which gives customers...
[June 14, 2002, 16:46]
Gas Company To Launch Flat-fee Telephone Service
News The move will provide customers with unlimited calls for a single monthly fee and is scheduled to launch by Christmas. Full story to follow
[September 10, 1999, 10:13]
Broadband Alliance Takes Aim At BT
News The Broadband Industry Group consists of Brightview, Cable & Wireless, Centrica, Energis, Freeserve and Tiscali. Several telcos have formed an alliance to push for changes to the UK's broadband market, with tighter regulation of BT top of their list.
[October 20, 2003, 15:30]
Rivals Accuse BT Of Stifling Broadband Britain
News The broadband market in the UK remains stifled by a lack of competition at the wholesale level where BT retains a monopolistic 99 percent share in DSL, the leading technology," said BIG, which is made up of Brightview, Cable & Wireless, Centrica...
[March 26, 2004, 16:35]
Ofcom Urged To Make BT More Transparent
News UKCTA consists of AT&T, Centrica, Cable & Wireless, Colt, Energis, Easynet, Fibernet, Global Crossing, Kingston, MCI, NTL, Opal Telecom, Opera Telecom, Redstone, Telco Global, Telefonica, Thus, Tiscali and Your Communications.
[June 22, 2004, 16:35]
BT Rivals Angered By Ofcom's Broadband Plans
News BIG is made up of Brightview, Cable & Wireless, Centrica, Energis, Freeserve and Tiscali. 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.
[December 18, 2003, 13:50]
Broadband 'worth An Hour's Work A Week'
News BIG is made up of Brightview, Cable & Wireless, Centrica, Energis, Freeserve and Tiscali. 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...
[November 19, 2003, 12:30]
