MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have criticised the rural broadband rollout intended to provide fast internet access to 90 per cent of UK homes by 2015 for favouring BT and adding as much as £20 to council tax bills. In a ...
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BT Sport and partner Timeline Television have implemented a high-speed data transfer and automation platform from Aspera for BT's live sport coverage. Aspera's fasp transfer solution and Orchestra workflow automation software were the ...
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is to issue tenders for several IT services, at a combined estimated cost of £782m. In a prior information notice on the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) website, the MoJ explains that it ...
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BT Group's chief executive Ian Livingston is to leave the telecoms giant to take up a role in government as minister of state for trade and investment. Livingston had been BT's chief for the past five years and will be replaced by BT's ...
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Telecoms giant BT reported a two per cent rise in its full-year profits to £2.5bn for the year to 31 March, but revenues for the year slipped five per cent to £18bn. BT beat analysts' expectations of a five per cent drop in ...
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Revenues at BT Group dropped in the three months to 31 December 2012, according to a statement released today, but the firm still managed to produce a profit thanks to cost cutting and lower operating costs. The statement presented ...
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BT has entered the bidding process for Ofcom's 4G spectrum auction,despite previous comments from CEO Ian Livingston about staying out of the mobile market. Ofcom has released the names of accepted bidders who will take part in the 4G ...
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BT has announced that Luis Alvarez is to become CEO, BT Global Services from October 1 this year, taking over from Jeff Kelly who will be returning to the US after three years in the role. Alvarez has been with BT for 12 years in a ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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BT has accelerated its fibre broadband rollout,with the company now saying that two-thirds of the UK will be covered by spring 2014. It's the second time that BT has claimed that it is speeding up its plans,which had an original ...
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