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British Telecom announced that its Wi-Fi service is now available in more than 5 million hotspots across the UK and Ireland. The company has been adding over 20,000 new hotspots each week over the past year and is now offering unparalleled service to its Broadband customers who can access these hotspots for free while not…
British Telecom is getting ready to return to the mobile game, almost 13 years after it sold off what is now O2. At the time BT was forced to consolidate its assets, opting to sell the company due to its heavy debts following the bursting of the telecoms bubble. Since then, the UK’s dominant landline…
British Telecom (BT) is apparently looking to re-enter the mobile phone market, 12 years after selling off what is now O2. At the time, the company had to make this step due to its heavy debts following the bursting of the telecoms bubble. Since then, it has attempted a number of modest reseller agreements but…
BT has launched a new mobile app for its broadband customers allowing them to automatically connect their smartphones to the firm’s network of 1.6 million hotspots across the UK. The application is called BT FON and it’s available as a free download for iOS (iPod Touch and iPad will work just as well) and Android-powered…
BT and Vodafone announced they got approval from the Irish Competition Authority for their plans, which essentially are the BT moves its customer base to Voda, and at the same time provides ‘wholesale network services’ to Voda for 7 years. Interestingly, and perhaps not obviously, Vodafone is actually the number 2 player in the Irish…
BT has announced a new (updated) mobile broadband service for SMEs, offering a USB stick that uses the Vodafone HSPA network. The service, called (unsurprisingly) BT Business Mobile Broadband, is available as a “standalone” option at £17.50 (+ VAT)/month, but there is also a deal on whereby businesses that sign up for option 2 or…
T-Mobile and 3UK have joined forces to beef up the hi-speed links between their base units. Interestingly it’s BT wholesale that is the middleman here, so they have got to be happy with what will surely have been a nice deal size! The question I guess is what is the bandwidth of these links –…
Following on from Dusan’s post, BT have released more details on their plan to give their broadband customers smartphones, so that they can capture more of the UK mobile market. The new “BT ToGO” handsets will work on home/public WiFi, and utilise mobile networks when WiFi isn’t available. The two devices were named as the…
BT is ending it’s Fusion service for the consumer market, after only 45K subs registered since 2005. The idea behind it was to sign up (lots of subs) who were in to the idea of cutting bills by routing calls over WiFi when they were at home. Many commentators have blamed the lack of…