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BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News BT is talking convergence again - the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer broadband package. Warren Buckley, director of portfolio convergence BT, said the move extends what the telco has been doing in the SME marketplace with its...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 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...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said during a panel discussion at this week's WiMax Forum Asia 2008 that WiMax's first-mover advantage over the long-term evolution of 3G (LTE) may eventually help the former...

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

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 was also instrumental in achieving a settlement...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

C&W hooks up with Orange over FMC

News The telco has announced a five-year partnership with the mobile operator to provide national roaming in the UK for its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service which will launch later this year. Cable & Wireless (C&W) has picked Orange as its FMC...

Tags: cable & wireless, fmc, orange, device

[05 Mar 2008]

Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade

News BT's forthcoming ADSL2+ tech will offer speed of up to 24Mbps, though the telco is also dabbling with fibre. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for ADSL B is for BT C is for Cable & Wireless

Tags: broadband, speed, virgin, cable

[28 Jan 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News Although BT wouldn't say whether it employs traffic shaping, the telco said it manages its network to "ensure the best experience for its broadband customers". Specifically the recent surge of interest in the BBC's iPlayer online on-demand TV...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

Does superfast broadband Britain stink of sewage?

News And although the telco is dabbling with fibre - planning a rollout at a property development in Ebbsfleet, Kent - it is keen to get the most out of its existing, copper-based infrastructure - and not so keen to incur the hefty costs associated...

Tags: sewer, speed, broadband, fibre

[23 Jan 2008]

Super-speed broadband heads to Kent

News Instead of laying traditional copper cabling to the buildings planned for the 1,000 acre development area in Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent, the telco will put in fibre cabling which can support data speeds of up to 100Mbps - aka very fat pipes indeed.

Tags: broadband, 100mbps, bt, speed

[10 Jan 2008]

Skype fights to regain trust of businesses

News However, argued Oberg, Skype is "clearly not a telco" and is therefore unable to offer an SLA. This is something a telco cannot offer. It provides the user with a geographic telephone number - starting 01 or 02 - which gives the impression the user...

Tags: skype, skypein, phone, telco

[12 Dec 2007]

Carphone Warehouse gears up for Christmas

News CPW senior project manager Bhavesh Chavda told silicon.com, peaks in customer demand across all of CPW's businesses, including telco, broadband provision and insurance, are supported by a data warehouse designed to expand quickly.

Tags: datawarehouse, iphone, carphone warehouse, apple

[22 Nov 2007]

BT 21CN chief heads for pastures new

News The telco announced that Andy Green will leave to become chief executive of services specialist LogicaCMG on 1 January, 2008. The upgrade to BT 21CN was previously scheduled for completion by 2010 but the telco has quietly moved its deadline back...

Tags: logicacmg, bt, 21cn

[10 Oct 2007]

BT gets into bed with FON

BT gets into bed with FON

News By doing so, the telco has effectively extended its Openzone wi-fi network across the three million BT Home Hubs - or at least those Home Hubs whose users agree to share their broadband connection. BT and FON have finally confirmed their long...

Tags: bt, fon, wi-fi

[04 Oct 2007]

BT looks to Far East for developer talent

News The telco already has R&D centres in Malaysia and the UK and works with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications to take top graduates to work at the company's Adastral Park centre, near Ipswich in the UK.

Tags: huawei, shanghai, r&d, china

[07 Sep 2007]

Small firms snub videoconferencing

News The telco launched a new IP Centrex-hosted VoIP service for its SME customers this week. There is still little demand for videoconferencing technology among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to a senior BT executive.

Tags: sme, videoconferencing

[05 Sep 2007]

BT plumps for BPO 'X' factor

News The BPO contract is worth £128m and will run until March 2014, and will see Xansa continue to provide various internal financial services for the telco.silicon.com Financial Services BT and Xansa have worked together for around 20 years and the new...

Tags: bpo, outsourcing, finance, xansa

[30 Aug 2007]

BT drops below half share of fixed-line calls

News O2, which is owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, gained the largest number of subscribers in 2003 but it is only now that revenues have caught up. BT's share of fixed-line call volumes fell below 50 per cent for the first time last year, an annual...

Tags: ofcom, voip, mobile, telecoms

[24 Aug 2007]

Virgin signs multimillion pound C&W deal

News The telco said the increased bandwidth will allow Virgin Atlantic's applications to work more effectively and for Virgin Trains to carry out an IT refresh. Virgin Group has signed a three year, multimillion pound deal for Cable & Wireless (C&W) to...

Tags: wi-fi, vpn, ip

[16 Aug 2007]

AA slashes £2m a year off voice and data costs

News C&W was also the lower risk option for the AA through the Energis connection, having bought the telco for £674m in 2005 - because voice was more critical than the data network. Motoring and breakdown organisation the AA has cut its network costs by...

Tags: trevor didcock, cable & wireless, the aa

[17 Jul 2007]

BT to snap up UK ISP

News The telco has made a £15.8m cash offer to acquire the business with the deal still subject to approval from Brightview shareholders.silicon.com Retail & Leisure BT is poised to snap up London-based consumer ISP, Brightview Group, after reaching an...

Tags: broadband, deal, acquisition, isp

[06 Jul 2007]

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