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• Virgin Media Rolls Out Superfast Broadband

  ReutersUK - 2008-12-16

  LONDON (Reuters UK) - Cable operator Virgin Media became the first Internet provider to roll out a mass-market super-fast broadband service in Britain on Monday, launching a 50 megabits per second offering.The average broadband speed in Britain is between 4 and 5 MB.Virgin said the new service, which had been...

  Tags: Network, Media, Service, Cable, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, British Telecommunications

• BBC Wins Support For Open VOD Standard, Will Share iPlayer With Rivals

  Content Next - 2008-12-11

  UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) and telco BT (NYSE: BT) are signing up to a BBC project to create an open standard for delivering on-demand video over broadband to living room TVs. They are joining Project Canvas, under which the BBC wants to mobilise content makers, ISPs...

  Tags: VoD, Partnership, On-demand, British Broadcasting Corp., British Telecommunications, U.K., Video, iTV, TVs, Business Structures, Corporate Communications, Video On Demand (VoD), Cloud Computing, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Marketing, Companies, BBCi, Countries, UK & Europe, Robert Andrews, BT Group Plc.

• British Telecom Expected To Intergrate Mobile Into 2012 Olympic Games

  Content Next - 2008-12-09

  This summer's Olympic Games in China were the perfect opportunity for the mobile industry to showcase mobile content and reach out to a new audience, and it appears companies are not wasting any time for preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. With the China games only a...

  Tags: Olympic Games, Mobile, British Telecommunications, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Companies, Samsung, Countries, Asia, China, Europe, Entertainment, Sports, Social Media, Tricia Duryee, BT Group Plc.

• BT signs VoD deal with ITV

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-17

  BT is set to offer ITV programmes on-demand as part of its digital TV service, BT Vision. The deal is the first video-on-demand VoD agreement ITV has signed witha UK TV platform. It also establishes BT as the first UK TV provider to offer VoD from all four terrestrial...

  Tags: VoD, British Telecommunications, iTV, BT Vision, Video On Demand (VoD), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Andrew McDonald, BBC, BT, Channel 4, Five, ITV, Virgin Media

• United Kingdom Convergence Triple Play & Digital TV Report Features Statistics and Analysis on the Closing Analogue FTA Environment and the Pay TV and Cable Sectors

  - 2008-10-14

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6bf6a3/united_kingdom_c) has announced the addition of the "United Kingdom - Convergence - Triple Play & Digital TV" report to their offering. The UK is in the forefront of media convergence in Europe. The country's excellent broadband infrastructure, served by universal DSL and extensive...

  Tags: analysis, British Broadcasting Corp., British Telecommunications, broadcasting, Cable, convergence, dividend, NETWORKING, pay-TV, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs, U.K., VoD

• BT Global Services Honoured With 2008 Frost & Sullivan Global Pharmaceutical Excellence in Customer Service Award

  - 2008-10-13

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Global Pharmaceutical Excellence in Customer Service Award is presented to BT Global Services. Distinguishing itself from traditional telecom companies through its proactive strategies, BT has been part of several significant healthcare initiatives. BT works closely with...

  Tags: British Telecommunications, Frost & Sullivan, patient

• Behavioral Targeting Has Its Day in the UK

  BNET - 2008-09-29

  British behavioral targeting firm Phorm will begin a limited test tomorrow in the UK, working with ISP British Telecom  to launch what it dubs its Webwise platform. Phorm will work directly with British Telecom, monitoring users web surfing habits to deliver up more relevant advertising. A whole host of questions...

  Tags: British Telecommunications, Behavioral Targeting, U.K., Phorm, Jake Swearingen

• Alcatel-Lucent names new management team

  - 2008-09-02

  PARIS AFP — French-US telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent named Ben Verwaayen, former head of British telecom group BT, and Philippe Camus, co-director of French media group Lagardere, in a new top management team on Tuesday. They will replace the founders of Alcatel-Lucent, Serge Tchuruk and Patricia Russo, who resigned...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Alcatel, British Telecommunications, Lucent Technologies Inc., MARKETING, media, NETWORKING, Telephony

• Audio: Two REALLY Angry Customers

  BNET - 2008-08-22

  On Wednesday, I posted some suggestions in "How to Cope with a Rude Customer." In that post, I explained that becoming passive and backing down just eggs on the rudeness. Here are links to the audio tracks (they're presented as YouTube videos, but they're just audio) for two...

  Tags: Audio, British Telecommunications, YouTube Inc., Customer, Geoffrey James

• On the road with a longt-distance morris dancer

  - 2008-08-16

  'I 'm morris dancing to Norwich and I need someone to captain my road-crew. You're the only man for the job. Yours, Tim.' Tim FitzHigham, Bt. BA Hons.Dunelm. FRGS (all Ret. ) is a man so wildly different even Ranulph Fiennes thinks he's a little crazy. And Sir Ranulph...

  Tags: bank, British Broadcasting Corp., British Telecommunications

• Letter: MAILBAG - Motivated youngsters

  - 2008-08-02

  Byline: JAMES TAYLOR IN response to MarjorieMedrek's letter of July 19 regarding the Schools Question Time event broadcast recently on BBC1 may I too say how excellent the young people involved were, both in the audience and working behind the scenes. However, from the coverage given on the...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., British Telecommunications, MARKETING, Strategy, workshop

• BT posts sliding profits in first quarter

  - 2008-07-31

  LONDON AFP — Telecoms operator BT Group said on Thursday that net profits sank 35 percent in the first quarter of its fiscal year amid fierce competition for broadband Internet services and higher restructuring costs. Net profits stood at 397 million pounds (504 million euros, 786 million dollars) in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, British Telecommunications, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• BP aims to win more than plaudits from Pounds 50m Olympic

  - 2008-07-04

  Deal with oil major brings 2012 promoters closer to goal of raising Pounds 600m from British business By Sarah Arnott BP became the latest British corporation to become a headline sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics yesterday, in a multi-year deal estimated to be worth in...

  Tags: Adidas-Salomon AG, brand, Branding, British Petroleum Co plc, British Telecommunications, Games, MARKETING

• Tyfone's Mobile Financial Services Platform evaluated by British Telecom Receives High Marks in Key Security Vulnerability Assessment

  - 2008-06-09

  Comprehensive Audit Confirms That Mobile Transactions are Safe and Secure

  Tags: British Telecommunications, financial service, mobile, security

• Strategy Analytics: Sky's Broadband Surge Continues But BT Retains Market Leadership

  - 2008-06-03

  Tiscali's Future Remains Uncertain While Potential Buyers Circle

  Tags: British Telecommunications, broadband, leadership, Strategy Analytics

• British Telecom Calls on Knoa to Manage Siebel CRM Applications

  - 2008-06-02

  Knoa End-User Experience Management Helps BT Drive Top-line Revenue and Enhance Customer Experience while Reducing Application Support Costs

  Tags: British Telecommunications, Siebel Systems Inc.

• BT Preliminary Results - Year to March 31, 2008

  - 2008-05-15

  LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

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• Smith Micro Software Announces Strategic Partnership with BT iNet

  - 2008-05-14

  Partnership Enables BT iNet to Offer Seamless Network Roaming and Secure Enterprise Mobility

  Tags: British Telecommunications, partnership

• TELECOMMUNICATIONS : BT WANTS VOICE OF INDUSTRY HEARD.

  - 2008-05-13

  The development of Europe-wide telecommunications services could generate almost 1,300 billion over the next 20 years, according to a study commissioned by British Telecom BT, the International Telecommunication Users Group INTUG and the European Virtual Private Network Users Association EVUA and carried out by Indepen Consulting....

  Tags: British Telecommunications, European Commission, industry, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, voice

• British Telecommunications plc Selects SMobile Systems to Secure its Newest Broadband Offering

  - 2008-05-08

  LONDON, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Subscribers to British Telecommunications plc's BT ground-breaking BT Total Broadband Anywhere service, will receive the top-of-the-range broadband service at home and BT ToGo, an all-in-one, Internet-enabled phone designed to email and surf the Internet, in-or-out of the home. These new phones will come...

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