BT gets behind renewable energy
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British Telecom announces a three-year plan to source all of its power from renewable energy.
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Bland on the run BT has again hinted that it could be persuaded to upgrade the UK's aged copper and aluminium wires into homes and businesses to fibre-optic lines.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - British telecom giant BT Group will spend Â£14 million ($27 million) over the next seven years on a new south London datacenter to strengthen its hosting and management services, the company said Thursday. The 930-square meter facility, which will have biometric security features, should be complete by September and has additional room for expansion, BT said. The company wants to grow its data services business by 20 percent a year with an emphasis on enterprise, public sector and financial services customers. BT estimates the data services market is worth Â£5.2 billion in Europe. BT is revamping many of its 70 data centers across the U.K., said Rajiv Abeysinghe, BT's data center transformation manager, at a conference in London on Wednesday hosted by Intel. Customers are asking for the ability to architect and host applications within BT datacenters, he said. BT is also looking to maximize its return on investment in datacenters, looking at ways to cope with power requirements with an eye toward renewable energy. The company said it reduced its carbon emissions by 60 percent between 1996 and 2006, and is working to up that figure to 80 percent by 2016. BT is asking vendors to make products with wider limits on temperature, humidity and air-quality, which could allow for more utility savings, Abeysinghe said. The company is increasing the ratio of applications on each of its servers' CPUs (central processing units) while also looking at virtualization technology. BT would like to increase its CPU virtualization rate from around 7 percent to 10 percent to 80 percent. "Virtualization can provide us with greater efficiency," Abeysinghe said. Â
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Ofcom deregulation plan a goer thanks to unbundling European regulators have backed a move by Ofcom to drop regulations that force BT to offer competitors price-capped wholesale broadband nationwide.â¦
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BT sees its pension fund deficit hit Â£3.4bn, and will raise its contributions from next year.
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Britain will stage a u-turn by supporting European proposals for binding targets on renewable energy generation.
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Richard Branson of Virgin plans to invest in efforts to find renewable, sustainable energy sources.
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By Steve Pain Deputy Business Editor  BT is to spend more than half a billion pounds to take the West Midlands into the 21st century with an advanced communications network which will triple internet speeds, radically transforming business and home computer use.
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The idea of renewable energy at home is  no longer as distant as an offshore wind farm. More companies  are waking up to the popularity of green energy and the Web  hosts many sites showing steps people can take -- or gadgets  they can buy -- to use renewable technology, from renting a  solar panel to burning calories with a pedal-powered washing  machine.
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Photovoltaics made of nanowires could power small devices and lead to cheaper solar panels.
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Telecoms group BT bolstered its worldwide presence today by unveiling plans for a landmark acquisition costing almost one billion US dollars.
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A push into the solar sector could benefit the company.
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Britain's BT Group Plc  posted third-quarter core earnings in line with forecasts on Thursday and issued a strong outlook amid a better-than-expected broadband performance, helping its shares touch five-year highs.
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Blog: IBM's Venture Capital Group is placing its own bets in clean tech in energy efficiency and water conservation.
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Wind and solar energy could be used to set up mobile phone networks in rural areas without power.
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Britain&#39;s telecommunications regulator backed away from breaking up BT Group PLC on Thursday and instead ordered the industry giant to improve competitor access to its networks.
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BT Group has extended an existing human resources outsourcing deal with Accenture with a new 10-year contract valued at Â£306 million ($576 million), the companies announced Wednesday. The deal will begin in August and will cover BT's HR functions in 38 countries for all of its 97,000 employees and 180,000 BT pensioners. The previous five-year outsourcing contract only covered employees in the U.K. Accenture will provide services such as customer contact, recruitment, pension administration, payroll, and benefits administration. The business process outsourcing (BPO) contract with London-based BT also has a consulting, or what companies like IBM are increasingly calling "transformation," element to it. As part of its consulting role, Accenture will create a "transition program" with BT before the August roll-out of the contract.