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BT Steaming Ahead With Phorm Trials - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 17 Jul 2008 07:05 AM PST

Despite the controversy that’s been kicked up, BT is going ahead with more trials in the coming weeks with Phorm, the behavioural ad technology firm that has developed software that…

BT To Invest £1.5 Billion In Super-Fast Broadband, Calls On Ofcom To Ease Restrictions - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 15 Jul 2008 03:17 AM PST

So BT (NYSE: BT) is going ahead with its investment in super-fast broadband--as long as Ofcom plays along. The telecoms firm announced today that it will spend £1.5 billion in…

BT Buying Classified Ads’ Ufindus For £20 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 03:33 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) is making a somewhat late play in the online classifieds space, buying classifieds website operator Ufindus for £20 million in cash. The telco lost its monopoly over…

BT Begins Warning Music Sharers, Portgual Sends Them To Jail - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:37 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) appears to have joined Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) in sending warnings to its customers whom the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says are illegally sharing music. One such…

Broadband Content Bits: Ofcom Deregs, EC Plan Advances - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 21 May 2008 02:42 AM PST

-- Ofcom: The media regulator is deregulating the wholesale broadband market for 70 percent of the UK, dropping a compulsion that BT (NYSE: BT) supplies its Datastream network access product…

Earnings: BT Revenues Up 2 Percent; Wholesale Broadband Business Weak Spot - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 15 May 2008 03:08 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) reported fourth quarter revenues rose 2 percent to 5.4 billion pounds, slightly ahead of expectations at 5.3 billion. New wave revenues—made up of broadband, mobility and corporate…

Ofcom Launches Another Pay-TV Consultation; No Picnic For BSkyB - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 14 May 2008 03:29 AM PST

BSkyB’s launch plans for its digital terrestrial television pay-TV service Picnic are stuck in a holding pattern, after Ofcom announced yesterday, yet another consultation into the service and in Sky’s…

Mobile Content Bits: BT Returns To Mobile, EC Price Caps, T-Mob Earnings - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 08 May 2008 06:06 AM PST

-- BT Returns To Mobile Market With Home And Mobile Broadband Product: BT (NYSE: BT) Total Broadband Anywhere, which gives customers broadband at home and on their mobile, as well…

BT Vision Adds Universal Pictures VoD Service PictureBox - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:17 AM PST

BT’s (NYSE: BT) living room IPTV platform is adding PictureBox, Universal Pictures’ premium on-demand movie subscription service, to its box. For £5 per month, customers get to pick from a…

Broadband Content Fights: Virgin vs Publishers; BBC vs Sony/MS; BT vs Ofcom; Carphone vs BT - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 01:20 AM PST

Highlights from a conflict-laden weekend… -- Virgin vs publishers: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is “already in talks with unnamed content providers about paying to have their content delivered faster than…

BT Investigating Wi-Max Investment—Again - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 09 Apr 2008 06:19 AM PST

British telecoms group BT (NYSE: BT) is considering investing in WiMax, according to Ian Livingston, the company’s CEO designate, a move that could help it overcome its strategic soft spot,…

Industry Moves: BT’s Verwaayen Stepping Down; C4 Taps Virgin For New Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Apr 2008 01:21 AM PST

- BT: BT (NYSE: BT) CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down after six years on June 1, to be replaced by Ian Livingston, CEO of the BT Retail division. Verwaayen…

Industry Moves: BT Appoints Simon Milner Head Of Media And Convergence - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 25 Mar 2008 03:37 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) has tapped former BBC policy adviser Simon Milner to take the newly created post of head of media and convergence policy. The Guardian reports that his appointment…

Updated: BT Vision To Do Web TV; IPTV Platforms Tool Up For H.264 - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 14 Mar 2008 04:32 AM PST

Update: IPTV service BT (NYSE: BT) Vision is planning to take its range of on-demand programming on to the web, we understand. A good source tells us the service will…

BT To Trial Behavioural Ad Generator Phorm - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 05 Mar 2008 01:12 PM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) will rewrite part of its privacy policy as it rolls out one of the first implementations of a controversial new behavioural ad targeting system. Virgin Media (NSDQ:…

BT Mobile Phone Subscriber Numbers Hit All Time Low - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 18 Feb 2008 07:20 AM PST

Subscriber numbers at BT’s (NYSE: BT) mobile phone business have hit an all time low, calling into question the company’s plans to use mobile services to help shore up revenues.…

BT, TalkTalk, And Virgin Media Sign With Phorm; Orange Ad Network Regroups - 3 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 14 Feb 2008 05:00 AM PST

Three ISPs BT (NYSE: BT), TalkTalk and Virgin Media—representing 70 percent of the British ISP market--have signed on to join advertising technology company Phorm’s new ad platform that will give…

Government To Propose Three Strikes Policy For Digital Pirates; BPI Applauds Effort - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 12 Feb 2008 04:12 AM PST

The drive to make ISPs more responsible for policing digital piracy continues full steam. The FT reports that next week the government plans to unveil in a green paper on…

Earnings: BT Dragged Down By Broadband Price Wars, Drop In TV Show Phone-Ins - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 07 Feb 2008 05:14 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) missed its quarterly revenue targets, hit by the competitive broadband market and by a decline in premium rate quiz show phone-ins. The UK’s largest fixed-line telecoms group…

Industry Moves: BT Vision Director Cranwell Heads To Babelgum - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Feb 2008 02:34 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) Vision’s director of business affairs Mark Cranwell is joining Babelgum as director of content strategy. Babelgum has tried to differentiate itself from similar platforms like Joost with…

BT To Pilot Fibre-To-Home; 100Mbps For Instant Music Downloads - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 10 Jan 2008 03:50 AM PST

Lucky Ebbsfleet. BT’s (NYSE: BT) Openreach network access unit will join Virgin in testing next-generation access in the Kent town. It will lay down fibre to a planned 10,000-home estate…

CES: BT Vision To Push VOD TV Over Xbox, Partnering With Microsoft - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jan 2008 02:53 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) will start streaming on-demand TV and other programming over Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 from the middle of 2008. The BT Vision IPTV service, which for the…

Ofcom’s Pay-TV Inquiry: Round One To BSkyB’s Rivals - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 18 Dec 2007 01:59 AM PST

Ofcom’s initial verdict in its assessment of the UK pay-TV market, prompted by complaints by rivals - pretty good, could do better. The regulator said the sector had grown from…

Pay-TV Smackdown: BSkyB Quarrel Laid Bare In Inquiry Documents - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 07 Dec 2007 03:29 AM PST

In the red corner - BT, (NYSE: BT) Setanta, Top Up TV and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) team up to complain about BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) in a 59-page joint submission…

Next-Gen Broadband: Nobody Wants To Pay For This Round - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Dec 2007 03:59 AM PST

[With Dianne See Morrison] If the UK’s broadband network is to be upgraded to the kinds of speeds enjoyed in South Korea, somebody’s going to have to pay for it…