bt cable in comment and analysis
Leader: Broadband Britain - not there yet
Leader The group claims BT still has a 90 per cent "stranglehold" on the non-cable wholesale broadband market despite regulator Ofcom's intervention and that there needs to be a level playing field to ensure Britain has a competitive broadband market. [29 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: The broadband gap
Comment With large improvements in the speed of the optical devices used to drive fibre optic cables, each cable has been able to carry much more traffic than originally anticipated. Operators have generally followed BT in a rearguard action to keep prices... [08 Jun 2004]
New e-gov supremo looks a safe pair of hands
Comment The new Accenture had joint ventures with Microsoft and BT, a venture capital fund and a cable television company. But he is low-profile only to those - probably most of us - who just haven't been looking in the right direction. [26 May 2004]
Leader: UK broadband - alive and kicking
Leader Today Wanadoo - as in Wanadoo UK, an arm of France Telecom's ISP business - launched a fairly broad broadband broadside against BT and the state of high-speed, always-on access in this country. While still relying on BT's wholesale offerings, it... [27 Apr 2004]
Leader: The CD debate
Leader Perhaps the only solace to take is knowing that dial-up, inevitably not always-on, means less of a risk than DSL, cable, leased lines and so on. And speaking of seedy content (CD.seedy.we know you'll geddit), a BT plan to find another use for... [08 Mar 2004]
Tony Hallett’s After These Messages: When is broadband not broadband?
Comment But putting ourselves in the providers' shoes for a minute, whether they use cable (like NTL or Telewest), DSL (like Tiscali, BT and countless others) or some other technology, it isn't easy to see how to market these services. [02 Mar 2004]
Leader: What Yahoo's video rewind tells us
Leader Sports led the revolution in cable TV roll out in the 1970s in the US and it is naturally something every ambitious content distributor wants. The former suffers from lack of penetration via DSL, cable or satellite, the latter from firewall... [31 Oct 2003]
How call centres caught the teleworking bug
Comment Recently Cable & Wireless set up a virtual call centre for Marks & Spencer for the launch of its new credit card. Mark Hughes, general manager of BT Workstyle consultancy, said: "Broadband and IP are essential technology elements that are needed to... [29 Oct 2003]
IP equals new alliances - get used to it
Comment Duncan Black, director corporate solutions strategies at Cable & Wireless, agrees. Customers are trying to implement converged applications and we can help them understand the network implications," says Alex Pannell, MPLS manager at BT. [20 Aug 2003]
IP over everything?
Comment The big UK service providers, notably BT and Cable & Wireless, still hold the bulk of the IP market and are working towards increasingly innovative use of their existing SDH assets. Simon Marshall reports. [19 Aug 2003]
Time for a service provider to manage your WLAN?
Comment In the UK, Energis currently has no public plans to provide MWLAN and Cable & Wireless has only provided it on a custom basis as part of two university projects. In fact, if you want a MWLAN today, your RFI will, for once, be a piece of cake... [10 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Talk is just more data
Comment That way, it would be much easier to build a cabling tree that drastically reduced the problems of cable bunching. Certainly, the core networks operated by BT and other carriers have been wholly digital for some time. [19 May 2003]
2003 - the year of the wireless LAN
Comment And whereas 3G has had no bottom up push, WLANs are already starting to be used by individuals with domestic broadband wishing to share their connection - even if telcos and cable companies the world over try hard to stop the practice. [12 Feb 2003]
Are BT and C&W the NHS dreamteam - or the stuff of nightmares?
Comment Today, the NHS Information Authority has announced it is upgrading NHSnet, with the help of two giant and well-known companies - BT and Cable and Wireless. BT and C&W are the obvious choices here. [16 Jan 2003]
The unholy trinity of broadband
Comment The report, sponsored by Cable and Wireless and called the Politics of Bandwidth, says that there is "compelling evidence" in favour of the break-up of BT to create a public interest company. A spokesman said: "This report is sponsored by Cable... [08 Nov 2002]
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