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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). BT is to abandon its fledgling mobile broadcast TV service less than a year...

Tags: virgin, mobile, television, bt

[27 Jul 2007]

The A to Z of broadband

News The visitor centre features what BT considers to be the world's fastest broadband internet café with the computers able to download data at speeds of up to 100Mbps, around 50 times faster than a typical broadband installation at home.

Tags: broadband, adsl, hsdpa, bt

[01 Nov 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...

Tags: bt movio, movio, mobile tv, virgin

[10 Jul 2006]

<strong>BT</strong> and Virgin get together for UK's first mobile TV service

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.

Tags: dab, movio, mobile tv, nokia

[12 Jan 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?

Tags: dvb-h, o2, mobile tv

[17 Jan 2006]

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]

BT hooks up first 21CN customers

News BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. B is for BT Cardiff, Bridgend and the Pontypridd area are next on BT's list to have their voice and...

Tags: 21cn, wales, bt, customer

[28 Nov 2006]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646), Orange (636), Pipex (634), TalkTalk (630) and then BT.

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

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...

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]

BT scores broadband Premiership rights

News Telco BT has won rights to show Premiership football matches via broadband. The matches will be shown 'near live', as BT optimistically terms it, at 22:00 on each match day. The matches will be made available on a pay-per-view basis for users of BT...

Tags: vision, iptv, football, bt

[26 May 2006]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. B is for BT 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 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]

Motorola and Nokia DVB-Hugging

News DVB-H is just one of many competing standards of mobile TV being trialled around the world, including DAB-IP, used by BT and Virgin Mobile, and MediaFLO, the Qualcomm-owned standard being piloted by Sky.

Tags: motorola, dvb-h, mobile tv, nokia

[11 Sep 2006]

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. H is for HSDPA Nearly three-fifths (59.8 per cent) of homes in the Wiltshire town had broadband as of 30...

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. H is for HSDPA The list from A to Z

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

News 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 year, joined...

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. H is for HSDPA Average broadband costs have dropped 36 per cent in the last four years...

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]

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