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U.S. Telco Increases the Value of Its Siebel Enterprise Applications
White Papers One Fortune 500 telco service provider was experiencing growth at a rate that threatened to overwhelm its CRM platform. This particular telco provider was very experienced with scaling applications, having deployed Cisco for Applications solutions...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Telco's "Triple Play" Includes HDTV Over Cisco IP NGN
White Papers SureWest has always set itself apart from competing telecommunications companies with a combination of innovative services and dedication to the highest levels of customer care. In parallel with the Radio Frequency (RF) cable buildout, SureWest...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
An Optimized Supply Chain = Millions in Profits for Denmark's Leading Telco
White Papers Leading Danish telecommunications provider TDC is looking to Supply Chain Management (SCM) to propel the company to even greater heights. The challenge was to Halve inventory; cut annual logistics expenditures by 15 percent; and ensure that the...
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
New players capture mouse's share of the telco market
News So say analysts at Dataquest's Predicts '99 conference in Paris this week. With public telephony operators retaining the lion's share of the carrier market, they claim the benefits of opening up the telecoms market are not petering through.
[June 8, 1999, 14:22]
Thus fails in paedophile pledge
News British telco Thus has failed in its pledge to remove paedophile content from its newsgroups, amid speculation that it has lost the will to take a more proactive approach in protecting children online.
[March 1, 2001, 8:18]
Is BT's Fusion a flop?
News BT's attempts to converge the worlds of fixed and mobile have suffered limited success, according to the telco's sales figures. The telco has sold its so-called Fusion converged handset to just 40,000 customers since its launch in summer 2005.
[January 10, 2007, 12:02]
BT to turn payphones into hot spots
News Tens of thousands of BT's public phone boxes could become Wi-Fi hot spots over the next few years, giving the telco's Openzone service a much larger presence across the UK. The telco announced on Monday that it is aiming to install BT Openzone...
[September 15, 2003, 16:10]
Exclusive: BT's 'rogue salesman' excuse fails to Click
News Following BT's admission last week that it has been poaching Internet users from other ISPs, a ZDNet News reader has reported a second instance of the tactic contradicting the telco's claim that the first was an "isolated" occurrence.
[September 14, 1998, 16:17]
BT goes Yahoo with rejigged broadband
News A new partnership between BT and Yahoo will see the telco's Openworld service rebranded as BT Yahoo. We realise that if BT's broadband targets are to be achieved we need to offer much more compelling content and services, and to partner with a...
[June 16, 2003, 11:55]
BT loses another 21CN executive
News The telco announced on Tuesday that Andy Green will leave to become chief executive of services specialist LogicaCMG on 1 January, 2008. The upgrade to BT 21CN was previously scheduled for completion by 2010, but now the telco has quietly moved its...
[October 9, 2007, 13:05]
BT to sell Eutelsat stake for £363m
News The UK's biggest telco will sell its entire shareholding in the world's third-biggest satellite communications company, if the sale is approved by the board of Eutelsat, with the deal expected to be wrapped up before the end of the financial year.
[November 26, 2004, 11:45]
BT: Google is our biggest threat
News That’s the surprise assessment of BT’s chief information officer, Al-Noor Ramji, who believes that the telco "can do anything that Google can do" That’s the business of a telco and I don’t see Google becoming a full service telco.
[June 8, 2006, 13:15]
Ofcom loses the 4G signal
Talkback The Telco's only have themselves to blame. Telco's; stop whining and get on with your job! They decided how much they wanted 3G and they convinced themselves - and their shareholders who paid for it - how much they needed it.
[August 16, 2006, 9:44]
Cheaper leased lines will damage competition, says BT
News BT hits back at Oftel's pledge to reduce the cost of leasing lines from the telco claiming it will do more harm than good to the UK telecoms market. Just last week BT offered rival telco WorldCom a deal partially based on Friaco (its wholesale...
[August 30, 2000, 15:30]
BT's next-generation network delayed
News The upgrade to BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) was previously scheduled for completion by 2010, but now the telco has quietly moved its deadline back to 2011. The telco is due to spend £10bn on the network, which it says will reduce operational...
[September 26, 2006, 17:10]
Market debates BT's access division
News Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT Group, on Thursday revealed details about the company's creation of a new services division, openreach, and the telco's successful avoidance of a break-up at the hands of regulator Ofcom.
[September 23, 2005, 9:10]
BT's new wave boosts the bottom line
News BT has published its half-year results -- and while the turnover for the company is looking static, the telco's 'new-wave' businesses are looking like the start performer. The telco looks to be making progress on broadband, with 607,000 new users...
[November 11, 2004, 15:45]
Finnish police expand snooping investigation
News Police are widening an investigation into several former employees of Finland's TeliaSonera for allegedly using the telco's systems to violate the privacy of employees and customers. TeliaSonera is Findland's largest telco.
[August 27, 2004, 16:30]
BT's unmetered promise under attack
News The UK's top two ISPs remain unimpressed by BT's reincarnated Surftime as the telco tells ZDNet that unmetered services will fail. Because ISPs will no longer benefit from a share of the telco's telephony revenue "they are going to fail", a...
[March 9, 2000, 12:32]
Jane Wakefield: A broadband chat from Rome
News For telco's worried about lost revenue, falling shares and the cold shoulder from investors, take a trip to Rome. They love phones there and the hours they spend chatting to each other on their mobiles would comfort even the most jaded telco director.
[March 5, 2001, 8:03]
