bt broadband in comment and analysis
Leader: The more broadband options, the better
Leader Its pressure on BT to lower prices to promote competition is working. It sounds like a throwback but it's actually a step forward: pay-as-you-go broadband. As broadband penetration in the UK has just passed the halfway mark, a pay-as-you-go plan... [16 Nov 2005]
Leader: Murdoch as Mr Broadband?
Leader It has always served the business world well and was among the earliest competitors to BT to make local loop unbundling (LLU) work - back when most others were complaining about the conditions for LLU, in fact. [21 Oct 2005]
Leader: Cable marriage - look on the bright side
Leader On the one hand, the size of the combined entity would seem to promise more competition for BT in communications, more for BSkyB in entertainment. But in terms of business comms, NTL-Telewest will lag a number of other providers, not just BT. [03 Oct 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Bluephone's bright future
Comment A major one is BT's ability to factor out calls via a broadband connection at the local exchange, evading all the problems of running voice traffic reliably over the general internet. BT Broadband illustrates that clearly enough. [21 Jun 2005]
Leader: Fear BT
Leader BT's Bluephone was launched yesterday, under the brand name Fusion - a landline/mobile combination that will use GSM when one is out and about, and broadband when at home. And should the likes of Skype and Vonage be quaking as the behemoth that is... [16 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.05.05
Round-Up The Round-Up has seen this story appear elsewhere - though admits silicon.com dropped the ball on this groundbreaking news - and would like to think the BT bod charged with issuing said statement did so with no little amount of enthusiasm. [13 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.04.05
Round-Up BT has long stood accused of not pandering to the needs of the broadband have-nots but this is taking things to new extremes. China's largest panda sanctuary Wolong in southwestern China is being fitted with broadband which researchers claim will... [08 Apr 2005]
Leader: BT's big wins
Leader Just when we think the pipeline of big wins for BT must be thinning out, another one comes along. There was the tiddler of a deal with the MoD, worth a mere £6m or so - definitely not in the same league as the big one over in Whitehall last week... [11 Mar 2005]
BT's new trick: 21CN
Comment Equivalent access means BT Retail will not receive preferential treatment over competitive operators for broadband and fixed telecom services, a demand that competitive operators have been calling for some time. [07 Feb 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Convergence here at last?
Comment The approach it is taking to deliver on the 21CN promise combines BT's traditional focus on fundamental network values, such as quality of service, with a progressive delve into IT and mobility, using broadband as the key connector. [14 Jan 2005]
Devil's Advocate: VoIP not for everyone
Comment The operators, notably BT, are well aware of the possibility of voice being carried over data links and are doing their best to juggle pricing to their own best advantage. There is a good deal of interest in using low-cost broadband services for... [13 Dec 2004]
Leader: Broadband Britain - not there yet
Leader The other warning comes from the Broadband Industry Group (BIG) - made up of BT competitors - in its state of the nation report about the wholesale broadband market. The group claims BT still has a 90 per cent "stranglehold" on the non-cable... [29 Nov 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Broadband ABCs
Comment BT and others shirk the investment necessary for universal broadband. But after a time of BT asking prospective local users to sign petitions, indicating the likely size of a market, let me point out how people actually gravitate to places that... [17 Nov 2004]
Radioactive: Will Bluephone save BT?
Comment It will be initially marketed to BT broadband customers and should be available in the spring of 2005. BT is reacting to this alarming decline by developing a whole new raft of products and services based largely around broadband. [11 Nov 2004]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: BT's DNE and DNA
Comment But BT, which carried out comprehensive qualitative testing over the past few months, says they play well to SMEs as well as larger organisations and many consumers will feel the sci-fi mood of the campaign relates to broadband and the future of... [13 Sep 2004]
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