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BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. Verwaayen, who will also step down from the BT board on 30...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever

News Broadband Britain has never had it so good with fat pipes cheaper and faster than ever. Average broadband costs have dropped 36 per cent in the last four years, according to price comparison site uSwitch.

Tags: broadband, speed, fat pipes, connection

[01 Feb 2008]

Building a 21CN Portfolio of Services: BT's Transformation to an All-IP Network

whitepaper Cisco and BT partner to bring video, voice data and mobility to BT customers through next generation 21CN program.

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 Jan 2008]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

News Ultra fast broadband is going to be a key technology to drive future growth of the UK economy, the competitiveness minister, Stephen Timms, has said. Timms was speaking after chairing a broadband summit to discuss the infrastructure needed to...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

Where next for broadband Britain?

News UK web fans could miss out on the 'next big thing' on the internet if serious money isn't thrown at the nation's broadband infrastructure. That's the warning from Ian Fogg, research director at JupiterResearch Europe, who was speaking during a...

Tags: ngn, nga, broadband, fibre

[22 Nov 2007]

Ren Zhengfei

AS Profile Zhengfei has fallen a few places in this year's poll but nevertheless remains one of the key figures in the rapidly growing Chinese technology market. As head of telecoms and networking company Huawei Technologies, he has continued with the firm's...

[12 Oct 2007]

Ben Verwaayen

AS Profile A lot has happened since Ben Verwaayen took over the UK telecoms incumbent in 2002. Following the advent of increased broadband use and mobile phone penetration, BT's heartland revenues were being eroded.

[12 Oct 2007]

BT 21CN chief heads for pastures new

News The chief executive behind BT's £10bn national network, 21CN, has resigned just six months into the job. The telco announced that Andy Green will leave to become chief executive of services specialist LogicaCMG on 1 January, 2008.

Tags: logicacmg, bt, 21cn

[10 Oct 2007]

Ofcom consults on next generation access

News Ofcom has issued a consultation paper to identify how and when the UK should upgrade its broadband access. Next-generation networks (NGNs) are already being installed across the UK. BT's 21CN is the best-known and largest example but Colt's NGN is...

Tags: ngn, bt, broadband, fttc

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds

Photo BT is developing services that could allow users of virtual worlds to call or text out to their colleagues and friends in the real world. To test the technology it has built a private island (above) in Second Life which it has dubbed Area 21 - a...

Tags: mobile, second life, bt

[13 Sep 2007]

21CN boss quits BT

News The chief executive behind BT's £10bn national network has resigned. Dr Paul Reynolds, one of the key business leaders behind the network, 21CN, will leave BT in September. He is to become the chief executive of Telecom New Zealand.

Tags: paul reynolds, bt, 21cn

[28 Jun 2007]

Swindon still top dog for fat pipes

News Swindon remains the UK's top broadband town but Milton Keynes is hot on its heels, having rocketed up to second place from 62nd last year. Nearly two-thirds (65.3 per cent) of homes in Swindon had a broadband connection at the end of 2006...

Tags: uk internet, swindon, broadband

[23 May 2007]

Cheat Sheet: FTTx

Cheat Sheet Fibre then. Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. But we're not talking about that sort of fibre. We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as in fibre to the home (FTTH), fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the cabinet...

Tags: fttp, fttc, ftth, fibre to the home

[11 May 2007]

Stories of the month - April 2007

News April is the cruellest month - and it's certainly been less than kind to CrackBerry addicts in North America who were forced to go cold turkey as an outage took their beloved devices offline for several hours.

Tags: second life, dell, blackberry, stories of the month

[30 Apr 2007]

BT: 'Web services are our future'

News BT has announced a major internal reorganisation aimed at making it easier for the company to develop and roll out web-based services. Two new business units have been formed in the reorganisation. BT Design will be responsible for designing and...

Tags: web services, 21cn, bt

[24 Apr 2007]

BT goes Latin with Comsat buy

News BT is reinforcing its global ambitions with the purchase of Latin American data communications specialist Comsat International. Comsat sells networking services to enterprises in South America. It has 700 staff and 2,000 enterprise, government and...

Tags: latin america, comsat, bt

[20 Apr 2007]

Europe not pushing enough fibre to the home

News Europe is lagging behind other continents for fibre to the home (FTTH) technology. Europe had roughly half the number of new FTTH subscribers as North America in the last quarter of 2006 and of those sign-ups more than three-quarters came from...

Tags: fibre to the home, ftth

[18 Apr 2007]

UK faces broadband deadline threat

News The digital divide could deepen further and the economy suffer unless the UK improves its plans for the next generation of broadband within the next two years. If the UK fails to offer the same bandwidth as other countries, the pace of innovation...

[16 Apr 2007]

21CN knocks BT home fibre chances

News BT's investment in its all-IP next-generation network - known as the 21CN - has hit its move towards fibre to the home (FTTH), a type of technology for delivering broadband that could supercharge the UK's internet connections.

Tags: bt, 21cn, broadband, ftth

[12 Apr 2007]

N Ireland first in line for the full 21CN

News Northern Ireland will be the first region in the UK where BT's next-generation broadband network will be completed, giving companies and residents access to a range of telecoms services. The 21st Century Network (21CN) is currently being rolled out...

Tags: northern ireland, 21cn, bt

[23 Feb 2007]

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