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Verwaayen Defends BT's Service
News BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen today defended his company's customer service record and its role in the broadband market -- but admitted there is still work to be done before he'll be entirely satisfied.
[September 10, 2002, 15:58]
BT's Converged Phone Ready For The Limelight
News Ben Verwaayen, BT's chief executive, hinted on Monday that his company is almost ready to launch a converged mobile device and that WiMax is a top priority for the future. In a discussion with UK journalists, Verwaayen said that the Bluephone work...
[April 5, 2005, 17:25]
Arise Sir Ben
Blog BT's Dutch supremo, Ben Verwaayen, has been awarded an honorary KBE by the Queen, thus joining other non-British recipients such as Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates and George Bush Sr. Mike Rake said Verwaayen's KBE came about because he "has been a...
[December 19, 2007, 10:58]
Former BT Chief To Head Up Alcatel-Lucent
News Alcatel-Lucent has appointed former BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen as its new chief executive. Verwaayen acknowledged the job ahead of him wouldn't be an easy ride: "I'm truly delighted to become the CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, leading a company with...
[September 2, 2008, 16:52]
BT Chief Steps Down
News BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen is to leave the company at the end of May. Verwaayen [pictured] has been at the helm of BT for six years, transforming it from a telecoms company focused on its local loop infrastructure into an IT and...
[April 8, 2008, 17:06]
BT Set To Cut Broadband Prices
News BT's new chief executive Ben Verwaayen is planning a series of significant ADSL price cuts in the next few months, in an attempt to boost the take-up of broadband service in the UK. Verwaayen, who replaced Sir Peter Bonfield earlier this month...
[February 4, 2002, 9:44]
Climate Change Is Damaging Our Infrastructure, Says BT Boss
News BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen has become the latest technology company head to call for government action to tackle climate change, claiming that it is already costing his company money. Speaking to the Observer last week, Verwaayen said that...
[June 14, 2005, 18:15]
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 Wants An End To Rivals' Bickering
News BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen hopes that his company's achievement of connecting five million wholesale broadband connections could lead to less infighting in the UK telecommunication sector. Speaking to journalists on Monday, Verwaayen said...
[April 5, 2005, 15:15]
BT Fights Back Against Break-up Calls
News BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen has launched a spirited defence against demands for the UK's incumbent telco to be broken up. Verwaayen told MPs on Tuesday that it would be "a disaster" for the UK if BT's network operations were split off into a...
[March 10, 2005, 11:20]
BT Boss Rules Out Broadband Price Cuts
News BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen has ruled out cutting the price of consumer broadband in the UK, and insisted he is not concerned that the head of Ofcom has supported the break-up of BT. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Verwaayen said that BT...
[September 10, 2002, 15:31]
BT Boss Wants Government Support Not Subsidies
News BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen believes the government has a huge role to play in the uptake of broadband -- but as a user of it, not a provider of subsidies to companies involved in its rollout. Verwaayen claims to be pleased with the way the UK...
[September 11, 2002, 14:15]
Trigger-happy BT Opposes Calls For Broadband Subsidies
News By declaring that he does not believe the UK government should provide broadband subsidies, Ben Verwaayen -- BT's chief executive -- has put the weight of Britain's incumbent telco behind government policy but given little comfort to the 25...
[September 16, 2002, 14:33]
Broadband Pricing Row Heats Up
News Fri 8 Feb: Chief executive Ben Verwaayen is on the verge of revealing significantly lower broadband prices, and effectively daring Oftel to block them Thurs 7 Feb: The telecoms giant plans to cut prices on ADSL 'substantially' to stimulate...
[February 9, 2002, 6:31]
We Want Your Love, Says BT Boss
News After the dot-com debacle, telcos have to win their customers' love, according to BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen. Capital expenditure in telecoms has gone down from $240bn (£153bn) in 2000/2001, to $130bn in 2001/2002, said Verwaayen, but that...
[October 2, 2002, 15:36]
BT Broadband Advances Rebuffed By Government
News On Thursday, Ben Verwaayen, BT's chief executive, said he was keen for BT's rollout of ADSL to be more closely linked with the government's drive to broadband-enable the public sector. Verwaayen explained that if ADSL was used to bring broadband to...
[April 3, 2003, 16:14]
BT: Regulators Hold Back Universal Broadband
News It will be virtually impossible for broadband to penetrate 100 percent of the European population unless regulators are willing to reward risk-takers, according to BT's chief executive Ben Verwaayen. Verwaayen, speaking at the Carriers World Europe...
[September 17, 2003, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog says Wearden to Verwaayen Much fun at BT, where Graeme "News Editor, that's me" Wearden makes an infrequent escape from the office and sits down at a round table discussion with CEO Ben Verwaayen to mark the five million user broadband milestone.
[April 8, 2005, 19:40]
BT Broadband Strength Sparks Parliament Fight
News Members of the Trade and Industry select committee angered Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT, by claiming that BT had an unhealthy dominance over other telecoms companies in the UK, and that splitting the telco in half would benefit the British...
[November 12, 2003, 15:00]
Big Hitters Bang The Drum For Innovation
News Speaking at the UK Technology Partnering and Investment Forum 2004 in London, E-commerce minister Stephen Timms and BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen both said it was vital for the government, large corporations and small firms to work together to...
[March 1, 2004, 16:40]
