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BT to Invest 1.5 Bln in Super-fast Broadband
By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters UK) - BT BT will suspend its share buyback to invest 1.5 billion pounds in rolling out super-fast broadband to 10 million homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming. But its shares fell as some analysts...
BT to Invest $3 Bln in UK Super-fast Broadband
By Kate Holton and Marc Roca LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BT BT plans to invest 1.5 billion pounds ($3 billion) to roll out super-fast broadband to up to 10 million UK homes by 2012, enabling services such as video conferencing and interactive gaming....
Producing Customer Magazines
Customer magazines help companies build credibility and strengthen customer relationships by offering regular channels of communication that focus on issues relevant to customers. “Relationship publishing” should incorporate a powerful mix of opinion, product information, and attitude. This may require journalistic skills, as well as design and production resources. What...
Fiber or Radio? Yes!
Proponents of some level of public investment in telecom infrastructure in the US are at risk of tying themselves in knots over the non-issue of whether radio or fiber technology should be used. The very short answer is that both are needed. In many cases...
The Common Capability Approach To New Service Development
A major challenge for any telecommunications company is how to improve time to market for new services and at the same time reduce costs and improve the customer experience. This paper shows how BT has analysed this problem and has set about addressing it. The result of the analysis was...
Unlocking Business Value From Effective Operational Risk Management
Protecting corporate assets, providing a continuous service to customers and being able to defend the organisation against attack has never been as important as it is today. According to recent research by BT, increased regulation is the main driver behind corporate investment in operational risk management processes and systems. However,...
Compliance and Risk Mitigation: Effective Management of Operational Risks in Financial Services Institutions
Basel II is generally accepted as the international risk framework for banks and financial institutions, promoting best practices in risk management principles, as well as in the measurement of regulatory capital. Managing the requirement of operational risk can sometimes be more complex than managing market risk or credit risk with...
Exploiting Convergence To Create Agile Organisations
This paper explains the vision for the converged and agile organisation. Customers can exploit shared channels wit a common context which allows them to efficiently swap between them when required. Users are supported at home and when mobile, but also are provided with a flexible office environment that allows then...
Operational Risk Management White Paper
Today enterprises are increasingly dependent on technology to create and gain operational efficiencies. A regulatory burden has now been imposed on technology - not to be a source of operational risk but rather to uphold the integrity of the financial services industry. Technology alone will not create and maintain such...
A Daunting New Challenge – Are Standards The Right Mechanism To Advance Corporate Social Responsibility?
Corporate social responsibility is about the values and standards by which businesses operate. Mr. Clement K. Sankat, Chair of Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards TTBS, called it “the commitment of business to behave ethically, operate legally and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of its...
British Telecom (Success Story)
British Telecom BT recognizes the business potential represented by its many sources of customer information including its bt.com website, its new interactive television service, direct mail responses, and call center data. BT selected KANA Marketing and Commerce Analytics for their high quality results, ease of use, flexibility, credibility in the...
Telecommunications Company Increases Marketing Response Rates by 100 Percent With SPSS' Clementine
The challenge confronting BT was to obtain the greatest value from its marketing budget, for which it needed to identify customers' propensity to purchase and then calculate their likely comparative value once they became customers. After creating accurate customer profiles, BT intended to develop new products targeted to specific customer...
Client Success Story: BT
Before the liberalization and deregulation of the telecommunications industry, incumbent carriers such as BT employed many human resources professionals to serve a large, geographically-dispersed workforce. The sheer scale and organization of the company meant that the provision of HR services was fragmented and different in approach as separate units developed...
Meeting Business-Critical Deadlines at BT Mobile
BT Mobile, one of the world's largest communications companies, wanted to address four critical business imperatives: the ability to handle current and future volumes of business in conditions of continued strong expansion, compliance with OFTEL's new Mobile Number Portability MNP requirements, compliance with a new National Dialling Code NDC regime,...
BT Group
BT Group is a European leader in telecommunications. The challenge for BT was to react faster and more intelligently than its rivals, as market conditions change, customer expectations increase and new competition surfaces. It needed to upgrade the portal's basic search solution with advanced technology that could hasten employee decision-making...
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BT unveils Pounds 1.5bn plan to bring faster broadband to millions
BT showed its hand on next-generation broadband yesterday with a proposal to spend 1.5bn bringing super-fast access to up to 10 million households by 2012, contingent on Ofcom's agreement to regulatory changes. The communications giant is suspending its 2.5bn share buyback programme after just 1.8bn to help...
BT to invest GBP1.5bn in fibre based home broadband by 2012
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-16 July 2008-BT to invest GBP1.5bn in fibre based home broadband by 2012C1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com On 15 July BT, a British telecommunication company, announced plans to invest GBP1.5bn in fibre optic cables and promised to make faster broadband access available to up to 10 million households...
Provista Life Sciences Hires In-House Physician to Administer Breast Cancer Test
Provista Life Sciences LLC PLS, a diagnosticdevelopment and commercialization company, today announced that ChristaCorn, M.D. has signed on to serve as its resident physician for the BT Test , a bloodtest for the early detection ofbreast cancer . With Dr. Corn in this role, women will now be...
Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Hilltop Holdings Inc., Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Eastman Chemical Co., Microsemi Corp. and BT Group Plc
CHICAGO -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTH), Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. (NYSE:...
BT challenges Sky's dominance of pay TV
BT has renewed calls for greater regulatory control of Sky's alleged dominance of the pay television market as the telco's on- demand entertainment service upped the ante by offering customers free access to Setanta Sports 1. As part of its strategy to move away from simple telephony...
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