BT Broadband has today announced a deal with the Olympic Broadcasting Services Company which will see BT’s fibre-optic network used to relay information from 21 Olympic venues in 2012 back to the main media centre. The fibre-optic network will ensure that millions of viewers around the world will be able to watch the Olympics 2012 [...]

The European Commission has made a direct appeal for British Telecom to open up its broadband infrastructure to competitors in the UK. It is the use of overhead cables and underground ducts which is the focus of this request although it is not clear yet whether BT is willing to abide by the request.
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British Telecom has today confirmed that a major flood on 31 March has affected over 400 telephone exchanges in the UK causing severe disruption to telephone and broadband services. The problem began in an exchange in the west of London but very quickly there were knock on effects to many other exchanges around the UK. [...]

There is no doubt that BT broadband has been by far and away the largest investor in to the UK broadband sector over the last few years. Even though the company has been eclipsed on many fronts by the likes of Virgin Broadband, Sky Broadband and other prominent UK broadband companies, there are many who [...]

While BT broadband is at the forefront of the UK broadband sector and the creation of a nationwide fibre-optic network, the company is still under significant attack from competitors. It is widely known that many customers initially left BT when the broadband sector began to increase although more and more of these appear to be [...]

It is believed a BT broadband is in communication with Ofcom regarding the potential opening up of BT’s fibre-optic broadband ducts. In simple terms this will allow rival ISPs to lay their own cables underground using existing British Telecom piping. It is well-known that the likes of TalkTalk and Sky Broadband have been very vocal [...]

BT broadband, one of the more prominent broadband provides in the UK, is set to challenge the UK government’s plans for mobile broadband which would see existing 3G licences extended indefinitely. The company believes that these plans are effectively handing billions of pounds of taxpayer’s money to various 3G mobile broadband licence holders in the [...]

British Telecom has today confirmed its original target of introducing superfast broadband to the UK by 2013 has now been realigned to 2012 and will be ready for the UK Olympics. This is a major shift within BT broadband although the £1.5 billion superfast broadband network is well underway. So what will this mean for [...]

BT broadband has this week revealed that on 9 December the company signed-up its 5 millionth broadband customer in the UK and has very high hopes for the future. The customer in question was presented with a trip to the Winter Olympics with BT looking to maximise publicity for this very significant milestone.
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BT broadband is set to expand coverage of its 24 Mb per second broadband package to over 75% of UK homes by the spring of 2011. This is a significant increase from the current 40% coverage and the original expectation of 55% coverage by 2011. In total the new target would allow British Telecom Broadband [...]