BT offers public Wi-Fi services for London Olympics

BT has come up with a plan of offering the London Organisation Committee of the Olympic Games(LOCOG)offering the Public with Wi-Fi services, that allows them to cover and the enjoy the Olympic Park during the games in 2012. The telecom giant however do not have the official remit to cover the games however, the better internet services, will thus help the cheer and excitement of the games grow manifold and also reduce the pressure on the mobile operators. As the spokesperson for BT, Stuart Hill, the Vice President and director at London Games 2012, said that there are talks going on internally for providing the BT Wi-Fi network at the Olympics with the LOCOG and the decision should be reached by the coming three to four months.

Hill also added, that BT has also plans for providing other VIPs, dignitaries and celebrities, with special Samsung handsets with BT sim cards for accessing the internet and Wi-Fi services, thus to enjoy the games to the fullest. Thus offering with the dedicated mobile network, it would not have any other issues of the coverage at large, thus making the games and its other information and excitement to catch without any hassles. Hill also added that after the games, BT network are also working towards leaving the fibre wires in place thus helping to reach their targets for the homes and other surrounding areas at a faster speed thus achieving its target of providing fast internet to all the household at much quicker speed. This area also includes the athletes’ apartment which will then be considered for normal apartments thus making it the first fibre-to-the-premises household in the UK.

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BT on a rise with growing Broadband demands

BT was a on a roll during this year as its services were on an all time high during the last quarter of the year. They experienced a humongous eight year high in the final three months with profits of more than half a million pounds to boost about. The company is said to have added around 356,000 users in the three months till the December 31, from its BT network of Sky and Talk Talk as compared to 253,000 which it gained in the previous quarter. Of this record, the 53% was added by BT’s own broadband network adding up to 188,000 users, which the highest count of the new connections since 2003.The contribution was also made by the BT Vision, BT network’s broadband Television service, by adding 40,000 connections in the last quarted, preceded by 24,000 new additions in the previous three months thus making a total of 545,000 in all.

All these new additions reported a rise of 30% which is £530 million in pre-tax profits towards the last three months till the 31st of December. BT has managed to drive itself towards the profit graph after the efforts of its chief executive Ian Livingston, which concentrated mainly on job layoffs, labour saving and other methods to reduce the overheads inorder to cut down the expenditure. Their step to employing fewer contracts and third party solutions was also headed with the motive to drive towards the betterment of the company and increase profit margins. BT outwitted its rival competitor Virgin Media, who managed to add about 35,000 new customers to its cart during the quarter of September. It has also outperformed the city expectation for pre-tax profits of upto £495 million. However, with all the rise, BT also faced a 3% decline in the revenues for its call and landline services by upto £5 billion which it expects to gain momentum by the year 2012/2013. As said by its chief executive, Ian Livingston, BT has experienced a good share of growth in the BT Retail with its perk at having the highest proportion of sharing in the past eight years. The BT shares in the FTSE 100 Index also experienced a boom by 3% during this period.

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