Telecom Report – The Green Show Part 1
Green business has been around for generations, but it’s just now hitting the tipping point. A call from the Worldwide Fund for Nature urges telecoms businesses to take the lead in this trend.
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Interview with British Telecom’s Jim Peters, Chief Architect, Services Fulfillment
Jim Peters describes the experience of his team in an OSS transformation project for BT’s Customer Premises Equipment Group. Oracle Communications solutions are referenced in this interview.
Jim was presenting the project at a Frost & Sullivan OSS/BSS Conference in Singapore on 25 March 2009
Duration : 0:5:34
Keynote: Rethinking Communications (1 of 7)
Keynote Presentation:
Rethinking Communications…
Where are we? What has changed? What hasn’t?
Part 1 of 7
Recorded at Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008
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UK telecoms fighting back the recession
The UKs telecom market has not been unscathed by the global economic downturn, which has pushed the economy into one of the deepest recessions experienced by any European country. Overall revenues in the telecom sector increased by only 0.5% year-on-year in 2008, to about £43 billion, considerably lower than the 4% growth seen in 2007. Competition has continued to drive down the price of overall telecom services by about 6% annually, yet the real economic hardship of many consumers will significantly reduce discretionary spend until at least 2011. The consequent decline in revenue for telcos, together with the still problematic liquidity market, will dampen their ability to fund network investment during the next two years. BT has been an early casualty, having been obliged to scale back its 21CN All-IP implementation.
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British Telecom – Ology 80s commercial[Channel 4 News] British Telecom admits spying on customers
2008.04.03
By Bridgid Nzekwu:
BT has admitted that it secretly monitored customers’ internet surfing activities in trials of new software in 2006 and 2007.
Channel 4 News at Noon first reported this story a month ago after being contacted by a concerned consumer. The data protection watchdog is investigating this possible breach of the law which could have affected thousands of BT customers. Our Money Reporter, Bridgid Nzekwu reports
Stephen Mainwaring from Weston Super Mare is one very angry BT customer. Last year, after noticing strange goings-on on his computer he contacted his internet service provider BT, who told him he had a virus. But in fact it was nothing of the kind. He’d been part of a secret BT trial to track customers surfing behaviour.
“I ran a lot of virus scans, updates and things. I even bought new PC, but as soon as I plugged it in started coming up with problem. BT kept insisting it was a virus, and it’s not. It turns out they were doing secret tests.” – Stephen Mainwaring, BT customer
The technology used was developed by a company called Phorm. Their software uses anonymous data gleaned from surfing activity and matches relevant adverts to people’s interests.
Phorm claims it’s a major benefit both to consumers and advertisers. But BT is now accused of spying and has admitted it didn’t tell its customers what it was doing.
“It was individuals who suspected that this was happening to them, who then confronted BT and BT prevaricated for a very long time. It is only now at the beginning of 2008 that BT has admitted that’s what were doing.
“Frankly that was disgraceful by BT to have done it, it would be huge diminution of our rights as individuals if this whole system is allowed to go ahead without us all being given the opportunity to opt in or out” – Don Foster, Lib Dem Culture Spokesman
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