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College students takeover BT Sport for Boxing Day

BT Sport will premiere a thought-provoking short film created by students from Newham Sixth Form College, as BT Sport Takeover returns on Boxing Day at 18:45 on BT Sport.  With no prior experience, twelve students took part in a 8-week course to create the show, run by BT Sport and hosted by Plexal, an innovation […]

December 15, 2020

BT Birmingham hub opens early 2021

BT Group has unveiled its new regional office hub at Three Snowhill – as it announced the first colleagues will move into the brand-new building in the New Year. Around 200 people will begin working from the site early in 2021, following the latest public health guidelines, with more arriving in phases over the following […]

December 10, 2020

UK brings Huawei ban forward

The UK government has ruled that telecoms providers must stop installing Huawei equipment in the UK’s 5G mobile network from September 2021. The announcement comes ahead of a new law to be revealed on December 1st, ultimately banning the Chinese firm from the network. DCMS Secretary Oliver Dowden said he was pushing for the “complete […]

November 30, 2020

BT, Hubbub ‘Smarter Living Challenge’

Following the UK Government’s announcement and ambition to make households greener, warmer and more energy efficient as part of the new 10 Point Plan to tackle climate change, environmental charity and social enterprise Hubbub and BT Group have revealed plans to create the ‘Smarter Living Challenge’ aimed at helping households to reduce their carbon emissions […]

November 26, 2020

Dolby Atmos on BT Sport App

This weekend, BT Sport will offer live streamed sport with Dolby Atmos audio technology, creating a more immersive sound experience for viewers using the BT Sport App. BT Sport Ultimate customers will be able to experience Dolby Atmos on the BT Sport App for the Premier League fixture between Brighton and Liverpool on November 28th. […]

November 26, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Samsung: “8K is the future”

Richard Moreton, from Samsung Electronics’ R&D UK Business Development & Industrial Affairs unit, told delegates to the virtual 4K Summit that 8K is absolutely on Samsung’s agenda. “We very much see a future for 8K, not just to be selling [TV] panels but in the use of this new technology to enable and grow the […]

November 25, 2020By Chris Forrester

BT, Transatel renew UK 5G partnership

BT and Transatel have renewed their partnership meaning that UK MVNOs of all sizes can continue to benefit from Transatel’s value-added services. That includes utility companies (Utilita, Ecotalk), community-based MVNOs (China Telecom Europe), B2B reseller MVNOs (Abzorb), and retail MVNO brands (Plusnet, The Phone Co-op). Transatel’s partnership with BT Wholesale has also helped it expand […]

November 25, 2020

BT Sport partners with Sceenic to roll out Watch Together

BT Sport and Sceenic brought to live a revolutionary way to watch sports inside the new BT Sport app. ´Match Day Experience´ the UK’s most immersive sports experience, rolls out Watch Together for all EE 5G and iPhone 12 users. Sceenic innovator and leader at co-viewing experiences and audience engagement teamed up with BT Sport to […]

November 23, 2020

Ofcom: BT & Openreach “making good progress”

UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its annual monitoring report on the progress towards delivering a more independent Openreach, the digital infrastructure subsidiary of dominant telco BT. In 2017, BT notified Ofcom of its voluntary commitments to reform Openreach. This included Openreach becoming a legally separate entity with its own board, management and staff. In […]

November 19, 2020By Colin Mann

BT trials quantum 5G and connected cars

BT has joined forces with high-tech Cambridge spin-out Nu-Quantum, other UK start-ups, Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) and university partners, as part of a world-first trial of end-to-end quantum-secured communications for 5G and connected cars. The AIRQKD trial combines BT’s globally leading expertise in building quantum-secure networks using QKD (Quantum Key Distribution – an essentially […]

November 17, 2020