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BT Enterprise launches Counter Drone Solution
Partnership with DroneShield to provide proactive response to the threat of drone disruption for Enterprise customers.
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BT Enterprise to play its part in Beyond Limits plans
Enterprise is edging customers towards its new portfolio of digital services as it declares its support for ‘UK PLC’. Upfront investment in upgrades for both fibre and Ethernet connections expected to create a smooth path for upselling. Security services to be weaved throughout the Enterprise portfolio in pursuit of ...
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PHABRIX flags role in HDR trials with BT Sport
Broadcast test and measurement solutions provider PHABRIX flagged its role in nine months of high dynamic range (HDR) technology trials conducted by BT Sport.
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Timeline Television selects Tedial’s MAM platform for BT Sport’s facilities
Production facilities specialist, and existing BT Sport broadcast partner, Timeline Television selected media asset management (MAM) provider Tedial’s Evolution MAM platform to handle and orchestrate media processing and workflow archiving at BT Sport’s facilities in Stratford and the BT Tower in London.
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BT demos 8K, but easing focus on technology
Amidst showcase of new network and broadcast technology, BT Sport stressed the importance of customer experience over technology bragging rights. Value of 5G emphasised for more efficient and agile production capabilities.
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Plusnet faces further negative publicity over billing issues
Plusnet, BT Consumer’s budget-brand internet service provider (ISP) subsidiary, faced further negative publicity over billing issues, after its system failed to take payments from hundreds of customers for a period of up to four months.
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BT commits to cut prices for out-of-contract and vulnerable customers
Ofcom set out a range of measures to help ensure that out-of-contract broadband customers pay fairer prices and providers offer better protection to vulnerable customers.
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BT Consumer faces continued scrutiny over broadband pricing
BT Consumer was hit with further negative publicity for overcharging long-term broadband customers.
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EE extends same-day smartphone delivery service to other major UK cities
EE extended its same-day smartphone delivery and set-up service across more of London and to Birmingham and Manchester.
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5G up and running for BT Mobile
BT Mobile launched a range of 5G smartphone plans for consumer and business customers across more than 20 towns and cities in the UK, and aims to extend coverage to a further 25 locations, with speeds of 100Mbps–150Mbps, by the end of 2019.
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BT Consumer strategy feeds into Beyond Limits goals
Consumer division to spearhead BT’s refreshed higher profile through customer experience development and partnership focus in line with 2018 strategy. Superfast services become default, with free upgrades pushed to 700,000 FTTC holdouts. New products on the horizon, but details remain vague, and TV refresh pushed into 2020. Social projects ...
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BT Global People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: David English, Andrew Lusher, Ishween Singh, Neil Sutton.
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BT Group People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Mark Chamberlain, Charlotte Gillan, Dan Harris, Mark Harrop, Johanna Lim.
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BT Consumer People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Andrew Kirkpatrick, Matthew Price, Ben Spencer.
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BT Enterpise People Moves, October 2019
Latest people movements include: Richard Harrap, Sally Fuller, Eric Witter, Maria Young.
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BT, TIP and Facebook launch third annual startup competition
BT Group, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), and Facebook launched their third annual competition for startups in telecom infrastructure to join the UK’s TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Centre (TEAC), based at BT Labs in Adastral Park, Suffolk and Tech City in London.
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Sutton provides technology-focused update on BT Group’s 5G progress
BT’s Andy Sutton provided a deeply technology-focused update on the Group’s progress along the path to 5G.
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BT Group joins EU QKD research project
BT Group was flagged as one of the UK participants in a Europe-wide quantum communications research project.
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BT Group launches IoT-based smart cycling trial at Adastral Park
BT Group launched an Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart cycling trial at its Adastral Park technology campus in Ipswich, UK.