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News BT and Cable & Wireless have been left to fight for the £700m NHS 'N3' broadband network - one of the key infrastructure components of the £5bn health service modernisation programme - following EDS's withdrawal from the bidding. [06 Feb 2004]
The A to Z of broadband
News B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT The process is still experiencing problems, according to Black, who has long warned that operational problems with the delivery of LLU could make it difficult for BT's rivals to plan and launch new... [01 Nov 2006]
BT pulls plug on mobile TV service
News However, the final straw for BT was the recent backing given by the European Commission to the mobile broadcast technology Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H). On Thursday, Virgin Mobile, the only customer for BT Movio, announced it was... [27 Jul 2007]
BT and Virgin get together for UK's first mobile TV service
News Interestingly, BT has decided on DAB as its standard for Movio - one in the eye for Nokia, which is backing DVB-H with its own mobile TV pilots in conjunction with O2. BT has unveiled the details of its mobile TV offering, set for launch this year. [12 Jan 2006]
Virgin to do UK mobile telly first
News Virgin Mobile is on track to launch the UK's first true mobile broadcast TV service, a rebadged version of BT's Movio product, in the summer. Insiders have told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK that Virgin's deal with BT includes a period of... [10 Jul 2006]
Wanted: New friend, must like mobile TV, says O2
News Like BT, which revealed the results of its own mobile TV trials last week, O2 has managed to unearth an element demand among consumers around mobile TV offerings. Have you taken part in BT's pilot with Virgin Mobile or O2's trial with Nokia? [17 Jan 2006]
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... [07 Feb 2008]
Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade
News B is for BT A planned BT fibre deployment at Ebbsfleet, Kent, will offer speed of up to 100Mbps on a mixed development including 10,000 homes. BT's forthcoming ADSL2+ tech will offer speed of up to 24Mbps, though the telco is also dabbling with fibre. [28 Jan 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News Both sets of software are aimed at boosting client relationships which, according to BT Business research, 43 per cent of UK SMEs feel is the most critical factor for success. B is for BT BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on... [22 Apr 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. In return for adding a residential footprint to BT's Openzone network, those customers got to... [22 May 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... [28 Nov 2006]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News B is for BT A BT spokesman told silicon.com these barriers include a universal service obligation to put copper wire into new homes, something which is high cost but which fibre takes away the need for. [15 Jul 2008]
BT rings up more than a million VoIP customers
News 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 - which offer... [10 Jan 2007]
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... [06 Dec 2007]
Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT
News B is for BT Matt Brotherton, project manager at the Applied Technology Centre in BT's chief technology office, told silicon.com: "What we wanted to do after [Area 21] was launch elements of that as a trial service just to understand what the demand... [20 Mar 2008]
