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RSS bt click in newsO2 considers high fibre rollout
News Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that O2 was "not going to move" until Ofcom changed the rules to ensure a... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast internet. B is for BT BT says the planned investment is part of its strategy to deliver next generation broadband service across... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. Brits are still not satisfied with broadband speeds - and with good reason since actual line speeds are still on average 50 per cent less than the headline speeds advertised. [14 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News As part of the increasing corporate involvement, BT was recently announced as one of the founding sponsors of the WSRI. Shadbolt explained BT is keen to boost knowledge within its own workforce especially with the company likely to deliver more and... [14 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News B is for BT Last year, BT Openreach said it was unsure there was demand for next-generation access. Speaking on the subject of NGA investment, Richards seemed to imply the regulator would not put severe price limitations on those companies, such as... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. Speaking at a conference hosted by UK trade association for technology, Intellect, Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards, said mobile broadband's rapid rise in popularity could help encourage... [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. Another recent innovation is a Skype button which businesses can place on their websites to allow people to call them with the click of a button. [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit... [18 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year... [16 Jun 2008]
Broadband Britain embraces wi-fi sharing love
News BT released the figures showing the number of people who have signed up to BT Fon, where customers share their broadband connection as a wireless hotspot. By sharing their own connections using their BT Home Hub, Fon customers can use any of the... [05 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News LLU has been key to achieving faster broadband speeds in the short term as BT's own next-gen ADSL tech - ADSL2+ (which promises a theoretical maximum of 24Mbps) - has taken longer to arrive. Posting a recent reader comment on silicon.com about the... [04 Jun 2008]
Wi-fi adds to courtroom drama
News Visitors and people working at most Crown courts in England and Wales can now gain internet access via BT Openzone wi-fi hotspots. HMCS funded the wi-fi deployment and will receive a percentage of the revenue from BT Openzone. [28 May 2008]
BT business hubs to be wi-fi hotspots
News BT will soon offer all its business-hub users the chance to become wi-fi hotspots for their visitors and neighbours, the company revealed on Wednesday. BT Business Open Wi-Fi will be an extension of the communications and IT company's existing... [22 May 2008]
Euro e-health getting the right attention
News B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe. [28 Apr 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management (CRM) software... [22 Apr 2008]
