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News BT has secured a multimillion pound, six-year contract with the NHS in Scotland to provide a nationwide broadband network. BT has already won a similar deal with the NHS in England, known as the N3 project.
[10 Nov 2005]
News BT engineers are to work round the clock to keep up with rapid growth in the broadband market. The shift to a 24-hour working schedule within BT Openreach - an offshoot of BT - comes after an announcement that Openreach has seen a 420 per cent...
[08 Nov 2006]
News David Rickards, managing director of Pipex, said BT was simply shoving as much data as possible down Pipex's single 155 Mbps pipe. Rickards said: "ADSL is a contended service, where up to 50 users have to share one 512 Kbps pipe.
[14 Mar 2002]
News The biggest piece of equipment in an ADSL network is something called a DSLAM, a device which looks like a small filing cabinet covered in flashing lights which sits in the local exchange and turns a phone line into a fat data pipe.
[27 Feb 2002]
News The storyline for the adverts revolves around BT's broadband pipe breaking and all the content escaping. BT has announced a massive marketing drive to promote its broadband services in the UK. Pierre Danon, CEO of BT Retail, said: "BT's intensive...
[19 Sep 2002]
News The telco looks to be making progress on broadband, with 607,000 new users signing up in the second quarter, bringing total fat-pipe customer numbers to 3.3 million. BT has published its half year results - and while the turnover for the company is...
[11 Nov 2004]
News BT's image may have been tarnished by its local loop feet dragging and fat cat bonuses, but to some the UK's favourite telco and its pipe-player logo inspires very different - almost heavenly - thoughts.
[31 Jul 2001]
News Verwaayen said: "People look to BT for much more than a dumb pipe - they want to have the services. BT Group's first-quarter results for the current financial year were released on Thursday to show a growth in revenue of £153m (2.8 per cent...
[28 Jul 2006]
News During his tenure, he led BT's push into the broadband market - the company remains the biggest fat pipe provider in the UK. BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its...
[08 Apr 2008]
News The spokesman said: "Broadband's not just about a dumb pipe into your home, it's about the products and services that you get as well and about what you can do with it. More than one million consumer customers have signed up for BT's VoIP service...
[10 Jan 2007]
News Intel's Mr WiMax - Scott Richardson, GM of the broadband wireless division - has been touting the possibilities of the long-range internet access technology beyond backhaul, claiming WiMax will make 100 per cent broadband more than just a fat-pipe...
[19 Apr 2005]
Comment Speaking yesterday, Varsavsky didn't miss a chance to trample on the dreams of 3G as a broadband pipe for data services. Over a breakfast that included what appeared to be a testicle in a bacon sock, BT revealed it's going into the consulting...
[07 Dec 2006]
News UK firm Captive View has developed the Viewrinal and a cheaper version called the Viewloo, which will pipe internet content into public toilets - exploiting, as the company name suggests, the captive audience in such places and increasing the...
[13 Nov 2000]
Photo Mimicking rival Wanadoo's Livebox strategy, BT will be giving away the home hub for free for customers on more expensive broadband tariffs, to encourage them to take up advanced services, although fat pipe tightwads can also buy the device for £30.
[21 Jun 2006]
News Dogra believes greater choice, greater audience targeting and greater interactivity will all help to sell the switchover to consumers, whether they opt for digital through their aerial or through their broadband fat pipe.
[20 Mar 2006]
News And fat pipe speeds are on the up too - at least on paper. Top speeds - of more than 8Mbps - were achieved by four per cent of UK fat pipe connections, up from 3.9 per cent in June and 2.4 per cent back in December 2006.
[22 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet It's also one way for BT to jump on the VoIP trend, which is giving its traditional fixed-voice revenues a kicking, and avoid becoming just another transport pipe, instead making itself into more of a services company.
[14 Nov 2006]
Comment Even if an ISP decided to invest in more gear from BT, the incumbent needs a disgustingly long lead time of 70 working days to get another fat pipe ready for use, at a one off cost of £40,000 and a yearly rental cost of a further £40,000 for the ISP.
[14 Mar 2002]
News I believe that `wired-up Britain` will remain a pipe dream unless a rich telco, or an independent body, gets in there and takes it from BT and the cable companies. When BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen spoke to silicon.com last week (http://www.silicon.com...
[16 Sep 2002]
News But, even so, he admitted the business case for fibre is "incredibly hard" as the market has seen a slide in the average price for broadband over the last few years and consumers don't see why they should pay more for fat pipe access.
[22 Nov 2007]
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