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RSS bt visionAll eyes: Universal added to BT Vision roster
News BT has struck a deal with Universal Music Group for music videos to be made available on demand via the BT Vision television service. BT Vision was launched last December and currently has around 4,000 customers - which is "in line with... [15 Feb 2007]
BT enters quad-play era with IPTV launch
News BT has today pushed play on its long-touted IPTV offering, BT Vision, moving the telco into the quad-play era proper. BT Vision offers BT broadband customers the chance to pick and mix digital TV programming and on-demand pay-per-view premium... [04 Dec 2006]
BT scores broadband Premiership rights
News The matches will be made available on a pay-per-view basis for users of BT's Vision service, without viewers needing to take out a subscription. BT Vision, to be launched later this year, is the telco's own IPTV offering. [26 May 2006]
BT: Bland leading the blind
Comment Peter Cochrane, BT's former head of technology, left complaining of a lack of entrepreneurial and technological vision. TV married to telecoms is crucial to BT's vision of the future - so who better to appoint than someone from an organisation that... [26 Apr 2001]
BT's chief boffin wears high-tech heart on his sleeve
News Chief technologist at BT, Peter Cochrane, is not content with supplying a vision of the future to one of Europe's largest telecoms operators. Trying to introduce that spirit of entrepreneurship to BT, however, is a different matter. [08 Mar 2000]
This time in '99: BT changes policy and launches free ISP
News After launching BT Click+, the hotly debated 'pay-as-you-surf' Internet access scheme, in September 1998, BT returned to the news under five months later with a revised vision for its Internet strategy. [08 Feb 2000]
BT CIO: "We see Google as our biggest threat"
News Ramji also referred to the challenges that lay ahead in BT's expansion into IP-streamed television (IPTV), with its BT Vision service. Google is becoming BT's biggest competitor. That's the surprise assessment of BT's chief information officer, Al... [09 Jun 2006]
BT hacks LLU prices - Ofcom looks on grinning
News BT announced today that it is slashing its LLU (local-loop unbundling) charges by around 35 per cent and will push this to 70 per cent soon. In the new double act that BT and Ofcom have developed for announcements, at least on broadband, Ofcom then... [13 May 2004]
BT names buddies for £10bn 21CN
News BT has chosen its preferred suppliers for a multi-billion pound upgrade of its UK infrastructure known as the 21st Century Network project (21CN). Alcatel, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens have all been selected to supply... [28 Apr 2005]
BT hops onto Vodafone, targets business mobiles
News Andrews said BT considered tenders from several mobile operators in the UK but in the end went with BT because it had the "wherewithal, global coverage, commitment and real vision" to be a long-term partner. [19 Nov 2004]
BT signs broadband deal with Dell
News Hot on the heels of a far-reaching deal with Microsoft, BT today announced plans to work with Dell to get its no-frills ADSL product out to consumers and small businesses. The idea is that Dell will market ADSL to its existing customers, some of... [07 Nov 2002]
BT announces drop in profits
News BT chairman, Sir Iain Vallance, said recent investments in Asia and the deal to combine the company's international operations with AT&T will "enhance our capability to serve our customers worldwide and are significant steps towards achieving our... [30 Jul 1998]
The WiMax quiet revolution: BT's on board
News BT, for one, is already involved and has trialled WiMax in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and has received positive feedback from the experiment. Chet Patel, GM of BT's wireless access group, said: "Eighteen months ago, it was all... [19 Apr 2005]
Computacenter in £150m BT deal
News Computercenter will work alongside BT's own services vision with the possibility of the pair working together on third party contracts. IT services company Computercenter has struck a desktop support deal with BT worth £150m. [26 Mar 2002]
Wanadoo ready to push VoIP and battle BT
News The loss leader is just a part of the new Wanadoo strategy, with the company determined to haul the UK into the broadband fast lane, keep pace with the other European countries in which it does business and become "a challenger to BT on broadband". [27 Apr 2004]
