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RSS bt for jVodafone prepares to bask in the rising sun
News Vodafone will buy BT's interests in Japan Telecom and the J-Phone Group for £3.7bn and the UK telco's stake in Airtel for £1.1bn (see also: http://www.silicon.com/a44144 ). The deal signals the end of BT's ambitions to be an international force to... [02 May 2001]
The A to Z of broadband
News B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT Broadband isn't just for web surfing as far as BT is concerned. B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT B is for BT [01 Nov 2006]
Vodafone makes first international 3G call
News Vodafone and BT both tried to take over Airtel (now Vodafone Spain) and J-Phone, but the heavily indebted BT was no match for Vodafone's aptitude at corporate takeovers. BT effectively conceded defeat when Sir Christopher Bland took over in April... [19 Dec 2001]
Vodafone clinches Japan telecom stake
News Vodafone owns 26 per cent of J-phone, while BT owns 20 per cent. Analysts expect the new acquisition could lead to a bidding war between Vodafone and BT, for the 15 per cent of Japan Telecom owned by AT&T, widely expected to be put up for sale... [20 Dec 2000]
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]
Sayonara Bland: BT backs out of Japan Telecom
News Cash-starved BT will sell its stakes in Japan Telecom and its mobile subsidiary J-Phone to arch-rival Vodafone for more than £3bn. Just two weeks ago, BT acquired options to buy a five per cent stake in J-Phone's operating subsidiaries, largely... [01 May 2001]
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]
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. J is for Janet We must be ready to respond to future... [22 Feb 2008]
