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<strong>BT</strong> scoops £140m Bradford & Bingley deal

BT scoops £140m Bradford & Bingley deal

News B&B has had an outsourcing relationship with BT since 1998 and said the larger contract is helping it reduce its supplier base and receive better service. Bradford & Bingley has awarded BT a 10-year, £140m outsourcing contract, covering a wide...

Tags: bradford and bingley, wan, lan, outsourcing

[10 Feb 2003]

The A to Z of broadband

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Tags: broadband, adsl, hsdpa, bt

[01 Nov 2006]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News B is for BT 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...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

BT hooks up first 21CN customers

News B is for BT BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. The 21CN project is BT's plan to switch its copper circuit-switched networks to a single IP...

Tags: 21cn, wales, bt, customer

[28 Nov 2006]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News B is for BT BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. BT declined to comment on the findings. Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646), Orange (636...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

BT rings up more than a million VoIP customers

News B is for BT More than one million consumer customers have signed up for BT's VoIP service since June last year. A BT spokesman told silicon.com the reason for the rapid uptake is largely down to the launch back in June of Total Broadband packages...

Tags: broadband, voip, bt

[10 Jan 2007]

BT wi-fi phones fail to light a fuse with consumers

News BT has reportedly abandoned, for the moment, attempts to market its dual-mode wi-fi handsets to consumers, despite the relative success of the device among business customers. According to an article in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, the BT Fusion...

Tags: bt, fusion, wi-fi, mode

[07 Feb 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News B is for BT BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. Users will be able to use their avatars to access the service at red BT phone boxes at five locations or by picking up a heads-up...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

O2: A wannabe BT?

News B is for BT O2 has revealed plans that could see it lining up to compete with the likes of BT and NTL as it moves increasingly towards fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), broadband and various flavours of telly and advertising.

Tags: mobile tv, fmc, be, advertising

[15 Nov 2006]

The best of 'Reader Comments': That old enemy ageism and BT's charge to the police

Comment From the past week, here we present reactions to a story we ran about ageism in IT (http://www.silicon.com/a43232 ) and feedback about BT's charges to police for account information ((http://www.silicon.com/a43139 )

[16 Mar 2001]

Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade

News B is for BT BT's forthcoming ADSL2+ tech will offer speed of up to 24Mbps, though the telco is also dabbling with fibre. A planned BT fibre deployment at Ebbsfleet, Kent, will offer speed of up to 100Mbps on a mixed development including 10,000 homes.

Tags: broadband, speed, virgin, cable

[28 Jan 2008]

Cardiff poised to steal Swindon's fat pipe crown?

News B is for BT The Welsh capital was chosen by BT for initial tests of 21CN, with the first customers hooked up to the new network last month. Nearly three-fifths (59.8 per cent) of homes in the Wiltshire town had broadband as of 30 June 2006...

Tags: 21cn, swindon, bt broadband, broadband

[11 Dec 2006]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News B is for BT Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it. The list from A to Z

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

News B is for BT Companies including BT - which has invested billions in overhauling its core network to an all-IP network known as the 21CN - and Virgin Media, which has announced plans to roll out an up to 50Mbps broadband service by the end of next...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever

News B is for BT The analyst said the UK's telecoms landscape is set for "enormous change", with the rollout of BT's 21CN all-IP next-gen network this year. Average broadband costs have dropped 36 per cent in the last four years, according to price...

Tags: broadband, speed, fat pipes, connection

[01 Feb 2008]

Where next for broadband Britain?

News B is for BT All-IP next generation networks (NGNs) are being rolled out in the UK - such as BT's 21CN - but NGNs do not solve the problem of legacy copper wiring at street level, from exchanges to cabinets and homes - an issue known as next...

Tags: ngn, nga, broadband, fibre

[22 Nov 2007]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News B is for BT At conferences where the likes of Tiscali and BT are present, you hear them say these things - 'We must move to a new tariffing scheme' - and that tells me they're working hard on this. For some time, many ISPs have been offering users...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Ofcom and ISPs kiss and MAC up

News B is for BT A BT spokesman told silicon.com that the company was fully behind the proposals. The MAC is required by customers wanting to switch ISP, which they take over to their new provider. The new rule comes into effect on 14 Februry next year.

Tags: mac, ofcom, bt

[13 Dec 2006]

Telco packages overwhelm customers

News B is for BT Ofcom has called for simplifying the process of switching providers and recently received support from BT for the cause. A "significant minority" of consumers have trouble working out which company offers the best value or quality of...

Tags: telcos, survey, ofcom, uk

[17 Nov 2006]

Bidders throw in towel as 3G mobile auction tops £11bn

News But if BT go back to B again, then bidding for that one could yet go a lot higher. Meanwhile, Vodafone is making a strong case for licence B, the highest capacity licence open to existing operators. Two more players have dropped out of the auction...

[05 Apr 2000]

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