More on EMEA Telco Leaders – Page 303
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OTE set to meld sales and services functions
DT finds another avenue to regional cost savings, with 2021 deadline in view.
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BT banks on Nokia’s silicon to boost backbone capacity
BT was the second operator to be identified as a major customer for Nokia’s 100G service router. Nokia kit said to have been designed with the BT detailed specifications in mind. McRae’s fulsome praise sees Nokia in a gaggle with other publicly-praised partners.
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BT improves national network’s timing in preparation for 5G
Technology from ADVA-owned Oscilloquartz is to underpin synchronisation for BT networks as they edge towards 5G. ADVA also picked up BT recognition for sustainable solution development.
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BT's transformation plans heat up under Prospect resistance
BT grapples with unions, as it seeks to implement restructuring measures to cut costs. Prospect members vote to veto cost-cutting plan. BTFS transfer pushed through despite CWU grumbles.
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Strategy & Change
More BT Italia allegations trickle through
Latest Reuters reporting make suggestions of pressure from BT head office prompting questionable practices, although timing appears off.
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BT Group People Moves, May 2019
People movements include: Michelle Adams, Michael Currer, Stephen Hall, Alex Hum, Darren Jackson.
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BT Consumer People Moves, May 2019
People movements include: Alasdair Collis, Ryan Lewin, James Reynolds, Nicola Robinson, Simon Till, Steve Wallage, Rachel Wigmore, Peter Wilson.
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BT Enterprise People Moves, May 2019
People movements include: Lisa Daniels, Richard Guest, Howard Morgetroyd, Stewart Pedler, Samantha Toombs.
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Openreach People Moves, May 2019
Latest people movements include: Spencer Barrett, Vinod Chinni, Georgia Grimes, Anthony Vincent, Anthonie Wain.
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BT Sport to produce Amazon’s Premier League content
BT and partner’s experience and capabilities to be put to use in Amazon’s trial run of live soccer broadcasting.
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Allera fights back on rural roaming coverage
EE is trying once again to cast itself as the good guy on rural networks through offers to cooperate with rivals made through the media.
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BT upgrades performance management across contact centres
Increasingly UK-based contact centre employees to see performance analysed with customer experience-focused analytics software.
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Products & Services
QiO signs for BT security services
BT is following through with attempts to take its internal security expertise to external clients and partners. QiO to integrate BT solutions into its own industrial IoT platform services.
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BT wins £5.1m NATO deal for support services
While uncertainty remains over many of BT’s European government projects, a renewed contract with NATO demonstrates Global Services’ ongoing ability to support intergovernmental entities.
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Cloudreach and BT link for hybrid options
BT will provide its cloud-native partner a way to provide services where physical control of critical applications is a priority, while Cloudreach may provide new opportunities for BT to deliver network and security services.
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ESN said to offer in-building gains over Airwave
EE is managing to bring some upside to ESN progress as politicians continue to scrutinise programme management. Vendor ecosystem expanding as meaningful deployment nears.
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BT Global People Moves, May 2019
Latest people movements include: Tim Cavill, Stephen Foster, Stefan Hischer, Ryan Jump, Joris van Oers, Bernadette Wightman, Chet Patel, Ashish Gupta, Kees Pronk, Stijn Raes, Tristan Morgan.
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Ofcom lays groundwork for fibre acceleration
Ofcom is changing its approach to regulation to support an accelerated fibre rollout, creating an opportunity for Openreach to step on the gas. Artificially-high superfast pricing is to be put in place for five years, to give altnets an opportunity for better margins as they grow. Openreach will see ...
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BT Enterprise sets out to prove its worth
CEO McQuade is aiming to reframe BT Enterprise’s steady-and-profitable business in largely declining markets as a more forward-looking digitalised unit ready and able to deliver next-generation services to businesses small and large. Pace of IP transition to accelerate, and the potential rise of SD-WAN is now seen as an ...