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<strong>BT</strong> to cherry-pick Cambridge boffins

BT to cherry-pick Cambridge boffins

News BT has announced a deal with the University of Cambridge which will create strong links between its research division and the students of the prestigious UK institution. The collaboration is the first fruit of the University's Corporate Liaison...

[04 Sep 2003]

Rural broadband row on brink of resolution

News WNCB is at least the second wireless provider to experience problems when attempting to buy high-speed backhaul links from BT recently. Previously, WNCB had been told it could be forced to wait until May 2004 before both links were fitted - six...

[15 Jan 2004]

Broadband restored after 'unacceptable' <strong>BT</strong> delays

Broadband restored after 'unacceptable' BT delays

News The broadband provider uses circuits from BT to connect its wireless networks with the internet, and Karl Crossman, managing director of FDM, claims that BT has been late in delivering these links at nearly every community served by his company.

[10 Dec 2003]

The A to Z of broadband

News Openreach, the youngest of the BT family, owns, maintains and develops the access network that links homes and businesses to the networks of the UK's communication providers. Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: broadband, adsl, hsdpa, bt

[01 Nov 2006]

Hyperlinks: Why BT may be right but is still so wrong

Comment Hidden Page is akin (identical, insists BT) to the hypertext links. After all, the web is not a web without links. Just like you, BT made a lucky discovery recently and, just like you, BT is hoping to cash in.

[11 Feb 2002]

London council works on desktop update

London council works on desktop update

Case Study While its existing network provides links of 100Mbps down to ISDN for some sites, a multi-million pound deal with BT will deliver the council a managed service giving it links of 1Gbps between four nodes, and 100Mbps to 10Mbps elsewhere.

Tags: council, novell, microsoft

[01 Mar 2006]

Devil's Advocate: The UK as broadband backwater?

Comment It is possible now to rent cheap voice links from BT and then buy DSL equipment to achieve a highly effective data link. The obvious reason is that fast communications links for business will not always be new revenue.

[29 Jan 2002]

In business? In a rural area? Want broadband? Well here's how to get it...

In business? In a rural area? Want broadband? Well here's how to get it...

News Our industry and commerce is important to us but we need good telecoms links to provide inward investment opportunities into the market town where we are based - Bridgnorth in Shropshire. We invited business and community leaders to a launch event...

[05 Dec 2002]

Cheat Sheet: GPRS

Cheat Sheet: GPRS

Cheat Sheet Essential Links External Links Vodafone goes head-to-head with BT on GPRS http://www.silicon.com/a44826 BT GPRS data services hit by glitches http://www.silicon.com/a43761 It's basically a souped-up version of the GSM standard that normal phones...

[25 Apr 2001]

Re:Viewing 2002 - A year in broadband

Re:Viewing 2002 - A year in broadband

News The obvious reason is that fast communication links for business will not always be new revenue. DSL technology is capable of providing links that will be highly advantageous in cost terms against current leased line services.

[18 Dec 2002]

Devil's Advocate: Is competition always the answer?

Comment Nearly all our digital links rely fundamentally on buried copper wires that belong to our old friend British Telecom. Low-cost technology exists to make high-speed digital links available to everyone who has access to a copper wire connection.

[13 Nov 2001]

BT send its workers home

News The UK telco plans to have 10,000 people working remotely by March next year, most of whom will be equipped with laptops, high-speed communications links and Internet access, with some also having videoconferencing facilities.

[12 May 1999]

BT to buy Friends Reunited?

News The paper said BT is interested in the seemingly unlikely union as a means for exploiting links between the site and its phones tariffs such as Friends and Family. BT has tabled a bid to buy school reunion website Friends Reunited, according to a...

Tags: itv, friends reunited, bt

[17 Oct 2005]

Behind the Headlines: BT's patent plea causes industry fracas

News BT's sudden announcement this week that it will enforce its patent on hypertext links has caused shock waves in the industry. Experts are divided as to the rights of the claim, with some arguing it will hamper the acceptance of ecommerce and others...

[23 Jun 2000]

<strong>BT</strong> brings broadband to Microsoft homeworkers

BT brings broadband to Microsoft homeworkers

News BT has inked a deal with Microsoft to give 1,500 of its homeworksers broadband links to the company's main network. BT is set to repeat this installation within its own company. BT has set next March as its target for reaching one million broadband...

[15 Apr 2002]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News Click on the links below to find out more. 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...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

BT hooks up first 21CN customers

News Click on the links below to find out more. BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. Cardiff, Bridgend and the Pontypridd area are next on BT's list...

Tags: 21cn, wales, bt, customer

[28 Nov 2006]

BT Internet finds solution to email disruption

News There were issues relating to changes in the software architecture that links our database to our application server. BT Internet fixed its email service at 03:00 BST this morning, following major outages earlier this week.

[01 Jun 2000]

BT claims it owns patent for hyperlinks

News A BT spokeswoman told silicon.com: "The hypertext links on which that technology was based is now what's behind the world wide web. BT has confirmed that it owns the patent for hyperlinks and intends to charge US ISPs for their use of the technology.

[20 Jun 2000]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News Click on the links below to find out more. BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. B is for BT BT declined to comment on the findings. Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

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