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BT stalks Skype with Softphone campaign

The UK’s incumbent telecoms company, BT, is about to launch a major advertising campaign for its PC-based VoIP technology, BT Softphone. Softphone is free to consumers making calls over broadband and will be positioned as a direct competitor to Ebay’s Skype. BT has, reportedly, hired the advertising specialist Agency.com to market Softphone which will launch [...]

BT cuts off ISP… and 5,000 customers

A row between BT and UK service provider Euro1Net, has resulted in 5,000 of the latter’s customers having their broadband service cut off. Euro1Net’s service was suspended after BT Wholesale said the company had repeatedly failed to pay its bills. The company is not available for comment and says on its website that it cannot [...]

BT introduces price cuts

Millions of BT customers will see changes in their phone bills, starting Tuesday, after official caps on what the incumbent charges were abolished by the UK watchdog, Ofcom. The regulator removed the price controls after 22 years ruling that competition in the UK fixed-line telephony market is sufficient to allow BT to compete fairly with [...]

BT benefits from new wave growth

Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of British Telecom, Thursday reported quarterly results in line with expectations. Group revenues for the quarter to end June 30 increased 3 per cent year on year to £4.8bn, largely spurred by strong growth in the company’s new wave services division. New wave revenue, which is mainly generated from networked IT [...]

BT ups 21CN trials

UK incumbent British Telecom (BT) Wednesday said that trials on its 21st Century Network (21CN) have been ratcheted up, with the next generation network now handling more than 625,000 live customer calls every day. In the latest trial stage of the 21CN, the network has carried more than 23 million customer calls successfully over an [...]

BT to launch movie download store

UK incumbent BT has announced that it has teamed up with movie firm Universal Studios to offer movies and TV over the internet. Consumers may buy or rent the films which can be downloaded direct to either a PC or a portable device. A BT spokesman explained: “This is not just for BT users. Anyone [...]

BT beats off rivals in broadband survey

A survey of the UK’s broadband suppliers has found that BT beat off rivals across a range of performance tests. NTL will be pleased that its latest purchase, Virgin, came second in the survey by internet testing firm Epitiro. The survey has not been released to the public before as it is normally sold back [...]