This investment will be used to expand and develop BTs existing high-speed, high-capacity broadband multiservice network. BT already has the biggest network of this kind in Europe, offering high-speed services to the finance , retail, education, manufacturing and media sectors.
Chris Earnshaw, MD, Networks and Systems, said, Our goal is simple to help our customers to take advantage of the data wave and the tremendous business opportunities offered by the internet and company intranets.
With this investment, we can not only meet demand, but exceed it. IT will enable BT to continue leading the implementation of a national broadband infrastructure for the integration of voice, data and video applications over single network.
BT will create a common multi-service broadband network to meet demand by business and residential customers u t the millennium and beyond. IT will use the latest ATM technology, and is an expansion of BTs high-speed CellStream network the UKs first national ATM service.
