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8 unusual facts about BT Group


Acoustic shock

84 BT employees suffering from depression, headaches and other health problems, are demanding compensation for injury sustained from acoustic shock at work.

BT Group

Ribbit provides Adobe Flash/Flex APIs, allowing web developers to incorporate telephony features into their software as a service (SaaS) applications.

Contractual Delivery Date

Contractual Delivery Date (often mentioned as CDD) is a term used by Openreach, the infrastructure division of the BT Group in the United Kingdom.

IDMS

Users included the Strategic Air Command, Ford of Canada, Ford of Europe, Jaguar Cars, Clarks Shoes UK, AXA/PPP, MAPFRE, Royal Insurance, Manulife, Hudson's Bay Company, Cleveland Clinic, Bank of Canada, General Electric, Aetna and BT in the UK.

Legal status of Internet pornography

The web filter Cleanfeed is used by the largest ISP BT Group to block sites on the Internet Watch Foundation's list, which includes sites that are "criminally obscene" as well as child pornography.

Lino Guzzella

In 2006, Prof. Guzzella appeared as a guest panellist, along with BT futurist Ian Pearson, space tourist Anousheh Ansari and renowned American astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the CNN Future Summit: World in Motion programme, presented by Richard Quest in Singapore.

Liv Garfield

She is the chief executive of Openreach, a BT Group business, and is due to become the chief executive of Severn Trent from February 2014.

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

BT's telephone exchange which serves Pembroke and Pembroke Dock is yet to be upgraded to offer either 21CN, FTTC or LLU.


2Wire

The 2Wire HomePortal residential gateways were distributed by broadband service providers such as AT&T, Embarq, and Qwest in the United States, Bell in Canada, Telmex in Mexico, BT Group in the United Kingdom, Telstra in Australia and SingTel in Singapore.

British Approvals Board for Telecommunications

At that point in history, British Telecom was a state monopoly, and even by 1982 BT only allowed (via approval) the four British manufacturers (STC, GEC, Plessey, and Thorn-Ericsson) to supply its twenty five types of phone through them, and not independently.

BT Italia

BT Italia is the result of a series of industrial ventures and mergers that started with the founding of Albacom in 1995, then a joint venture of BT, BNL, ENI and Mediaset, each company controlling a 25% share.

Carbon Trust

Organisations that have received the standard included Morrisons supermarkets, B&Q, Dfid, University of Central Lancashire, Thames Water, Trinity Mirror, BT Group, Kyocera, Barclays Capital, Hewlett Packard, University of Manchester, Citrica, Ricoh, Diageo, O2, Tesco, Mothercare, Moss Plastics, Manchester United, Serco, Linklaters, Bolton Wanderers Football Club, British Land and Motorola.

CounterPath Corporation

CounterPath's customers include some of the world's largest telecommunications service providers and network equipment providers including Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, BT (British Telecommunications PLC), Mobilkom Austria, Rogers, SaskTel, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, Metaswitch Networks, GENBAND, Mitel, NTT and NEC.

Esther Hall

Esther is also known for co-starring in the high profile BT advertisements opposite Kris Marshall from 2005 to 2011, in which she played a single mother with two children who started a relationship with Marshall's character and later moved in with and married him.

HM Revenue and Customs

with Fujitsu and BT, was one of the biggest ever IT outsourcing contracts, at a value of £2.6 billion.

Keep Talking

Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it was sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement.

Piers Lea

He works in both a strategic and consultative level within LINE Communications and has developed learning and communications solutions for clients such as BP, Ford of Europe, Anglo American, BT, Nokia, Volvo Car Corporation, Department for Education and Skills, The Ministry of Defence, University for Industry, National College for School Leadership and the BBC.

Tim Donovan

He won Broadcaster of the Year in the 2001 BT awards, for a report on Ken Livingstone's campaign to become mayor, having followed him around for a month with a digital video camera.

UK Council for Child Internet Safety

On 29 September 2008 Children's Secretary Ed Balls and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced the launch of UKCCIS, which was supported by organisations including Google,Yahoo, BT, Microsoft, and Facebook, and which had an initial brief to deliver a "Child Internet Safety Strategy" to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in early 2009.

UK Statute Law Database

The idea for creating a UK-wide legislation database dates back to 1991 when the government awarded a contract to Syntegra, a BT company previously known as "Secure Information Systems Limited", to create a database containing all the public Acts comprised in the publication "Statutes in Force" together with all amendments made since a "base date" of 1 February 1991.

Urban Eye

The charity has a strong record of forming partnerships with stakeholders (Transport for London, Metronet, Highways Agency, Land Securities and Kensington Housing Trust), public and private organisations (BBC, BT Group), and local authorities (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City Council, Suffolk County Council, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) to tackle regeneration schemes in run-down sites in the city.

Wireless Broadband Alliance

Members include AT&T, BT, Orange, NTT DoCoMo, China Mobile, Cisco, LG, Intel, Ericsson,CableLabs, MediaTek, Mosaik Solutions, NEC BIGLOBE, Qualcomm, Sharedband, Smith Micro, Spice Digital, Telkom Indonesia and Telecom New Zealand.


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