BT Achieves Cisco Master Unified Communications Specialization in the U.S.28 September 2010 - BT announced today it has achieved the Cisco® Master Unified Communications Specialization in the U.S. This specialization recognizes BT as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support highly sophisticated applications-based Cisco Unified Communications solutions. Read more
Tata Communications and BT Join Forces to Extend Telepresence Connectivity15 June 2010 - Tata Communications and BT today announce an agreement and associated customer trials for the industry’s first commercial service to allow customers on either of their existing video exchanges to establish conferences with customers on the other’s video exchange. The collaboration will provide each organization with open access to a much broader network of businesses. Read more
Onstream Media's Infinite Conferencing and BT Conferencing Expand Alliance22 March 2010 - BT Conferencing and Infinite Conferencing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Onstream Media (Nasdaq: ONSM), are expanding their alliance by providing their jointly developed conferencing platform to Infinite’s reservationless client base. Read more
BT offers multiple vendor video conferencing support25 February 2010 - BT Conferencing today announced that it now offers interoperability between the video conferencing systems of the three top manufacturers of video conferencing equipment: Cisco, Polycom and TANDBERG, as part of the company’s managed service offering, BT One Source. Read more
BT expands features of One Source for Polycom Immersive telepresence solutions08 February 2010 - BT Conferencing today announced the expansion of BT One Source for Polycom Immersive, a complete telepresence managed service. One Source combines Polycom’s immersive high-definition systems with BT Conferencing’s comprehensive management services and automation to provide customers with an easy-to-use, reliable, and cost-effective immersive telepresence solution.Read more
Pepsico strengthens cross-company collaboration with BT and Cisco telepresence02 February 2010 - BT and Cisco today announced that PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, will be deploying Cisco TelePresence systems across PepsiCo’s major offices worldwide. The technology includes fully managed “concierge-level” services from BT, including intercompany capabilities that will help enable cross-company collaboration between PepsiCo and key distributors and retailers.
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BT introduces flat rate and global video exchange pricing28 January 2010 - BT Conferencing today announced new video bridging pricing that can save customers money, help them manage their video conferencing budget more effectively, and simplify their operational needs. Read more
BT introduces one source for TANDBERG25 January 2010 - BT Conferencing today launched a fully-managed automated service for TANDBERG solutions called BT One Source for TANDBERG. Read more
BT Conferencing Transforms Management of Unified Communications12 January 2010 - New online experience offers full range of account management features. BT Conferencing today announced the launch of a revised website, www.btconferencing.com, which offers customers an engaging online experience with new functionality and ways of managing their accounts. Read more
BT wins green accreditation08 January 2010 - The ITM has awarded Bronze ICARUS accreditation status to BT, in recognition of its ‘commitment, measurement and targeted reduction of emissions from its business travel and meetings programme.' The judges, members of the ICARUS advisory board, praised BT for having made great use of conferencing and collaboration tools to reduce the need for its employees to travel. Project ICARUS chairman, Mark Avery, commented: "The fact that it is encouraging its employees to make informed decisions about their travel plans and help reduce emissions by using conference calls instead shows that it is genuinely committed to working smarter, a BT ethic operated across its work-force in general. Read more
Conference call confessions30 December 2009 - According to a new survey by BT Conferencing, the flexible working opportunities of audio conferencing over the phone and the fact that our colleagues can’t see us, means that more than 68 per cent of us have dialled in to a conference call wearing our pyjamas, almost half of us wearing only our undies and 20 per cent just didn’t bother with clothes at all. Read more
BT Offers tool for tracking video conferencing travel and carbon savings08 December 2009 - BT Conferencing today announced the availability of Engage Tracker, a travel and carbon savings tool that helps companies document monetary savings resulting from the use of video conferencing. With real-time reporting capabilities, the tool is able to calculate employee travel costs avoided through the use of video conferencing, as well as carbon emission reductions resulting from reduced travel. Read more
BT Conferencing named Polycom’s Service Provider of the Year23 July 2009 - BT Conferencing has been named as Polycom’s Service Provider of the Year for 2008. The award recognizes BT for outstanding sales performance and excellence in meeting customer solution, service and support needs. Jeff Prestel, general manager of BT Conferencing’s Video Business Unit, said: “BT is pleased to be recognized as Polycom’s Service Provider of the Year. Read more
TANDBERG and BT Team up for Inter-company TelePresence and video conferencing18 June 2009 - TANDBERG and BT have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deliver the first global non-proprietary solution for inter-company telepresence and video conferencing. Under the MOU, the BT One Source service, using TANDBERG’s standards-based infrastructure, allows an enterprise to collaborate internally and externally across differing video and telepresence systems. Read more
BT Opens International TelePresence Video Conferencing Centers09 June 2009 - BT unveiled a network of three high definition (HD) telepresence video conferencing demonstration centers where customers can compare telepresence systems before they buy. The new centres, in London, New York and Denver, showcase the HD telepresence video conferencing technology of BT’s partners, Cisco, Polycom and TANDBERG as well as BT’s industry leading software applications. Read more
BT Completes Exchange to Exchange Cisco TelePresence Call03 June 2009 - BT announced it has successfully supported an exchange-to-exchange intercompany Cisco TelePresence meeting with a call between a global retail provider and Kraft on the BT Global Video Exchange. The call between differing exchange networks using BT Conferencing demonstrates the feasibility of intercompany Cisco TelePresence and showcases BT’s expanding capabilities in this area. Read more