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Articles tagged with: Bt and Landline
50th Anniversary of the Curly Cord Telephone
UK landline operator, bt is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of the familiar 'curly cord' telephone in UK homes. The 700-type telephone was launched in May 1959 and was designed to "Set off the decor of any room and add a discrete note of good taste and luxury you can afford". more
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European Incumbent Telecom Operators at Risk From Cable Broadband Upgrades
Fitch Ratings says in a report published today, that a number of European incumbent landline telecom operators risk increasing disadvantage given a failure to respond sufficiently to the risk posed by the cable operators' broadband investments and their own resistance to spending on fibre. more
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OnRelay Trials Enterprise FMC with BT Global Services
OnRelay, a provider of cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) software, has announced that they have entered into a customer trial agreement with the international services arm of UK landline operator, bt Global Services. more
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Orange and Vodafone to Expand Network Sharing Partnership
The UK arms of Orange and Vodafone are expected to expand their existing network sharing agreements to include sharing the costs of engineering, maintenance, and technology, in a move which is expected to save Vodafone (and Orange presumably) around US$1.45 billion a year. more
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UK Wi-Fi Provider Halves Monthly Subscription Rates
bt, the UKs dominant landline operator has cut public Wi-Fi rates by up to 50 percent as it launched a new price structure. More than 2,500 extra European hotspots are also being added, bringing the choice of places to connect to more than 50,000 overseas, and over 100,000 UK and Ireland locations. more
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BT Signs 3G Backhaul Contract with T-Mobile and 3 UK
T-Mobile UK and Hutchison 3G UK, through their joint venture company, Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), have signed a five-year managed network solutions agreement with the UK's dominant landline operator, bt to provide links connecting 7,500 base station sites on their consolidated 3G infrastructure. more
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O2 Signs UK Backhaul Contract with British Telecom
The UK's dominant landline operator, bt has announced a new managed network solutions agreement with Telefonica O2 that will see bt Wholesale provide and manage high speed connectivity between the majority of O2Ã's base stations and its core national network in the UK. more
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Vodafone Planning HSDPA Expansion in the UK
This summer Vodafone UK will begin a multi-million pound investment to extend its HSDPA network to a further three million people across six major conurbations; Birmingham, Bristol. Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. These towns and cities join London and major British airports, which were the first locations to benefit from VodafoneÃ's HSDPA upgrade in 2007. Roll out is expected to be completed by Autumn 2008. more
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BT Launches Broadband Service with HTC Smartphones
The UKs dominant landline operator, bt is launching a "Total Broadband Anywhere" service which is packaging domestic broadband internet access along with a free HTC smartphone and access to bts public Wi-Fi network. more
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Vodafone Signs 5-Year Backhaul Contract with BT
Vodafone UK and landline operator, British Telecom (bt) have announced a five-year managed network solutions agreement that will see bt Wholesale provide and manage high speed connectivity between VodafoneÃ's UK base stations and its core national network. more
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