UK Large business & public sector
It wasn’t too long ago that humanity reached a significant milestone, and for the first time in history more than half of the world’s population lived in cities.
For millennia people all over the world have left the fields behind, and travelled considerable distances to seek their fortunes in urban centres. And for a long time that made sense. [Read more...]
In 2008, Roel Louwhoff learned that he would lead one of the world’s biggest peacetime telecommunication projects yet, the 2012 London Olympic Games. Not only were the games destined to become the most connected games ever, it was also the first time that a single telecommunications provider was given responsibility for the entire project. We asked Roel, who is CEO of BT Operate, to look back on BT’s biggest project yet.
How did you feel back in 2008, looking at the task ahead?
We knew we were tackling a totally unique challenge. Obviously we could learn a great deal from the previous Olympic games in Beijing and Vancouver but the scale of the London games, from a telecommunications perspective, would be something entirely different. To illustrate, we assumed that we would have to carry approximately seven times as much data traffic as in Beijing.
Claire Garrett, Vice President Portfolio & Propositions
By Claire Garrett, Vice President Portfolio & Propositions
Earlier this year, I volunteered to help out for a day on a digital inclusion project called Race Online. This project was created to help around 10 million UK citizens who don’t have access to the world of digital opportunities most of us take for granted. For some of these people, they choose not to be online because they don’t understand how it could help or benefit them. For others, they simply don’t have that choice – maybe because of disability or a lack of money, education, employment, or language skills.
My day was to be spent at a multi-cultural women’s centre in the Midlands – a centre where women (and men) from different cultural backgrounds can meet, get support, and learn new skills. Before I set off that morning, I asked my teenage children for some ideas on interesting and helpful websites. They suggested sites such as Wikipedia, money saving expert, trainline, and cinema opening times. This turned out to be a wasted exercise. My help was required at a far more basic level. [Read more...]
News changes at lightning speed in the superfast world — superfast updates flood out about new and improved superfast access, superfast broadband, superfast internet… but these developments don’t arrive overnight; let’s pause a moment to look at BT’s plans for internet broadband speeds. [Read more...]
More and more employees are using their own computer devices at work. Not surprising really when you think how many consumers are buying Apple or Android Tablets and Smart Phones; working from home using their own broadband service; and increasingly using their own data transfer service when travelling. And, when Internet TV’s become commonplace they will use them for business video conferencing. [Read more...]
Yesterday the UK 2012 Budget was announced and from a public services perspective we can expect the headlines over the next few days to be dominated by the announcements on local variations on public sector pay. There were also some eye-catching announcements on additional investment in superfast broadband which will benefit public services, citizens and businesses in the targeted localities. [Read more...]
Now a financial trade can be accomplished in nanoseconds and intelligent networks are increasingly using automation to shoulder the burden of risk control and compliance, where do people fit in?
Today’s financial traders need cost-effective access to all markets so they can shop around for the best trading price. But access to the raw data alone is of no use; the technology needs to be reliable and able to produce analysis in fractions of a second to make the data meaningful so it can help pinpoint where traders should be buying or selling.
And where this was once the exclusive preserve of the trading elite like hedge funds and investment banks, the cost is falling, meaning the technology is now within the reach of a wider selection of organisations. The demand for faster data delivery (in the region of 10 gigabit Ethernet connections) and developments like microchips that can execute trades in 740 billionths of a second bring the human role into question. [Read more...]
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Each megacity is home to more than ten million people, and experts predict that within a generation half the world’s population will be living in megacities. They’re growing at phenomenal rates by embracing the digital revolution and in a world of recession and stagnation, these are the areas of boom and potential.
