BT in $965m US telecoms deal
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BT boosts its presence in the US by buying IT market leader Infonet, whose clients include the US government and 1,800 multinational companies.
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BAE Systems North America announced a deal Saturday to acquire Herndon-based DigitalNet Holdings Inc. for $595 million in cash, pushing it further into the growing government information technology market.
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British Telecom is buying U.S.-based Infonet Services in a deal that values the company at almost $1 Billion.
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The offer values Hutchison Essar, one of Indiaâs fastest-growing telecommunications companies, at about $19 billion.
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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.
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Mobile phone firm Vodafone is to enter the UK fixed-line broadband market after striking a deal with BT.
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Broadband should be available through 99.4 per cent of phone lines by next summer thanks to a technical breakthrough by BT.
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LONDON: Britainâs BT Group is hoping to make a dramatic return to the US with a $1bn acquisition of Californian telecoms group Infonet Services, the Sunday Times reported.
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LONDON (CP) - BT Group PLC has awarded a contract worth $5 million US to Nortel Networks for voice-over-Internet technology designed to link almost 10,000 agents into a so-called virtual contact centre.
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Vodafone Group Plc has selected the former UK incumbent, BT Group Plc, as its fixed-line partner as the world's largest mobile operator catches up with its rivals and starts to offer its UK consumer base a broadband offering.
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InfoWorld - U.K. telecommunications carrier BT Group plans to extend its enterprise services offering in the U.S. with the acquisition of International Network Services.
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British telco BT has reached agreements with German mobile handset maker Siemens and Canadian wireless solutions provider Research In Motion (RIM) to offer UK corporate customers the Siemens SK65 handset with Blackberry Built-In technology.
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IBM has signed a seven-year, &#36;969.2 million contract with British bank Lloyds TSB to supply it with Internet telephony and data services, IBM said on Monday.
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New Delhi, Nov 8. (PTI): British Telecom (BT) announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Infonet, a leading provider of IT and telecom services, for a consideration of $865 million.
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SBC Communications Inc. SBC.N on  Monday said it would buy AT&T Corp. T.N for about $16  billion, making SBC the largest U.S. telecommunications company  and ending AT&T's independence after suffering a two-decade  decline after losing its U.S. monopoly.
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TELECOMS group BT will bid this week for a Â£4bn Ministry of Defence contract to stitch together IT systems for Britain&#39;s armed forces.
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BT moved to bolster its position in the global market for providing communications services to multinational corporations yesterday with the $965m (Â£376m) acquisition of loss-making California telecoms group Infonet.