British Telecommunications in preliminary talks to buy EE
Deutsche Telekom and Orange may be considering selling consumer network EE to BT. EE is the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom. Orange and Deutsche Telekom have previously considered whether they should list EE on the stock...
LONDON, England—Britain’s Office of Communications has announced the winners of 6.6 megahertz of technology-neutral spectrum to be used for low-power GSM wireless services such as private networks. The Wireless Telegraphy licenses cover spectrum in the 1781.7-1785 MHz and 1876.7-1880 MHz paired bands. The dozen...
MINNEAPOLIS-BT Group plc selected Fair Isaac Corp.'s network performance and monitoring solution.Terms of the agreement call for Fair Isaac to supply a network assurance solution that builds on the neural network technology and case and workflow management included in the company's Risk Analytics for...
Fourteen companies, including service providers, infrastructure suppliers and handset vendors, have come together to publish a set of open specifications for extending mobile voice and data services over wireless local area networks.The companies listed under the body known as Unlicensed Mobile Access, are Alcatel...
LONDON-BT said it has signed a five-year outsourcing deal with Honeywell in which the carrier will manage communications and networking services in 200 Honeywell sites throughout Western Europe.The contract covers mobile and video communications as well as landline assignments."Based on multi-protocol label switching, the...
NEW YORK—MMO2, the BT Wireless unit that British Telecommunications plans to spin off in November, has received low-tier investment-grade corporate credit ratings of Baa2 from Moody's Investors Service and BBB- from Standard & Poor's.In the announcements on 18 September, the two agencies also assigned...
LONDON—British Telecommunications plc plans to rename its BT Wireless unit mm02 next year following the planned spinoff of the division to BT shareholders later this year. Though the wireless division names will officially include the "mm," it will be promoted as 02 to consumers...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola has agreed to supply the equipment for the BT Wireless network initiative called Expidas to launch applications for present and next-generation services."External developers will be able to test and integrate their applications with these replica networks with the ability...
British Telecommunications' wireless unit, BT Wireless, slipped from the No. 2 wireless operator in the United Kingdom during the second quarter, falling behind perennial leader Vodafone Group and new runner up Orange SA.BT Wireless added 301,000 customers in the United Kingdom during the quarter,...
BT Wireless and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile International said their operating companies in the United Kingdom and Germany plan to cooperate on the rollout of third-generation networks.The agreement includes coordinated rollout of 3G infrastructure and sharing of new and existing base stations, including sites, masts...
The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that some industry observers believe will be a major catalyst for the worldwide uptake of the mobile Internet."We view the creation...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Intel Corp. and British Telecommunications plc's BTexact Technologies and BT Wireless businesses said they will work together to develop applications and services for next-generation mobile Internet devices.The collaboration is expected to allow peer-to-peer wireless 802.11b connections to extend seamlessly to remote participants...
In a dramatic move to bolster its value and trim debt, British Telecom said last week it would spin off its wireless unit, BT Wireless, as a separately traded company, and temporarily suspend dividend payments. The telecom giant said it expects the moves to...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia and BT Wireless completed a third-generation ALL-IP multimedia call using a BT Wireless trials ALL-IP system.The multimedia applications were provided by Nokia experimental All IP Mobility Core system and applications servers, run over a trial 3G ALL-IP network. The trial allowed the...
GENEVA-How the mighty have fallen. British Telecommunications (BT), once ranked among the world's most powerful carriers, is finding itself buckling under a crippling mountain of debt in a climate where raising equity in the telecom/information technology (IT) sector has hit an all-time low. In...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-International press reports are stating Europe is divided on the issue of whether to allow European third-generation license winners to have revised fees and terms for the licenses they paid heavily for last year. Germany, which drew about $46 billion from mobile carriers,...
NEW YORK -British Telecommunications plc will undertake "a massive, massive restructuring, and I don't want to underestimate what we plan to do this year," Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive officer, told securities analysts at a recent meeting here.Under the umbrella of a new group...
Attempting to slash its debt load by as much as $14 billion and boost sales, which have fallen by as much as 50 percent this year, British Telecommunications plc announced a companywide restructuring plan that includes plans to sell off up to 25 percent...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and BT Wireless deployed Ericsson's Mobility Gateway as a foundation for their WorldConnect service, the first offering through the two companies' Advance strategic global alliance.Ericsson said the gateway, which operates in the Jambala open platform, will help WorldConnect deliver...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and BT Wireless announced the first phase of their strategic alliance designed to create seamless mobile communications services worldwide for global travelers and multinational companies.The carriers nine months ago announced the alliance called Advance, which complements the companies' cooperation in...
LONDON-British Telecommunications announced a major restructuring that creates four businesses in high-growth areas, including wireless. BT Wireless is the newly formed international mobile business emphasizing mobile data and next-generation services.The company also created Ignite, a data-centric broadband Internet Protocol business focused on corporate and...
WASHINGTON-The proposed merger of MCI Communications Corp. and British Telecommunications plc promises to bring plenty of cash and plenty of new services to the global telecommunications arena, but wireless subscribers to MCI's paging and cellular operations here won't notice much of a change for...
