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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lockdown gamers have seen the UK’s internet providers experience record broadband usage as a result of new Xbox consoles hitting the market and a new title in the Call of Duty games franchise. BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Vodafone, City Fibre and Zen Internet said they had all coped with the huge spike in demand on […]
BT Group has announced the appointment of Bridget Lea as Managing Director of Commercial for its Consumer division, following the departure of Ettienne Brandt. Lea joins the business from Sainsbury’s and Argos, prior to which she led Stores, Online and Omnichannel at O2 for almost six years. She is also on the Board of Governors […]
BT Group has revealed that it plans to move into its new office in the centre of Bristol in early 2022. Bristol has been announced as one of BT’s key locations in the UK, with the new office acting as a hub for more than 2,000 colleagues in the city and wider region. Construction of […]
Bango, a global platform for data-driven commerce, is powering bundled subscription services for BT. The UK telco has selected the Bango Platform as a key integration point to deliver a range of third-party products and services to its customers. The partnership between Bango and BT aims to open-up greater entertainment and commerce opportunities for BTs […]
The DTG has released the latest version of the D-Book, the only standard universally deployed in around 6 million TV receivers each year. Created with industry and updated annually, it sets out the technical interoperability requirements for digital terrestrial television in the UK, underpinning Freeview, YouView, Freesat, EE TV, BT TV and TalkTalk TV. Each […]
BT has published its results for the half year to September 30th. The telco described its revenue as being “relatively resilient” at £10.59 billion (€11.74bn), down 8 per cent – largely attributed to the impact of Covid-19 including reduced BT Sport revenue and a reduction in business activity in its enterprise units, and declines in […]
Around a third of adults in the UK think more should be done to improve people’s ability to use online technology, a BT survey suggests. The impact of coronavirus pandemic risks worsening the digital divide, with some, particularly younger people, saying a lack of digital skills has impacted their mental health and wellbeing during the […]