Financial Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Ian Livingston outlined significant progress in the turnround of BT yesterday, but the chief executive of the UK's largest fixed-line telecommunications company was...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Outlook Not a bad day for Ian Livingston, CEO at BT. His elevation to the top job at the telecoms giant in June 2008 was something of a hospital pass: within months he had to issue a shock profits warning after a disastrous performance from BT's Global Services division, and a series of other problems also loomed large. But yesterday's trading update, however, suggests Mr Livingston's hard-nosed approach...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Ian Livingston was never going to turn BT Group around quickly especially given the rusting hulk he inherited. But since April he has managed to at least change tack and yesterday's halfyear results reveal a company sailing with a fair wind at last.
computing (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Tom Young, Computing , Thursday 12 November 2009 at 11:04:00 Restructuring of firm continues apace but pensions deficit doubles BT today reported second quarter profits of £677m - a six per cent fall on the £722m earned in the year ago quarter. The firm is in the process of restructuring following two profit warnings last year and problems in its the Global Services division, a supplier...
Bordeaux-Undiscovered (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Vampires are chique at the moment perhaps partly to the box office hit Twilight and the series True Blood - and now Vampirism seems to have infiltrated the world of wine. You can buy Chateau Du Vampire Cabernet from Vampire vineyards (Paso Robles, California) as well as Dracula Syrah . If Vampire Wine strikes horror into your bones and sends your taste buds screaming off into the night then I suggest...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
TalkTalk, BT, Orange and Which? are amongst leading telecoms companies and consumer groups who believe the Government's latest proposals on the 'how' to reduce illegal filesharing are misconceived. Labour's Lord Mandelson's proposal is that people who illegally download films and music should have their Internet connection cut. The view, something of a u-turn for the government, was formed after Mandelson...
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
The chief executives of Britain’s biggest internet providers have joined together to criticise Lord Mandelson’s “misconceived” plans to disconnect users who illegally download music and films. In a letter in The Times, Ian Livingston, of BT; Charles Dunstone, of Carphone Warehouse, which owns TalkTalk; and Tom Alexander, of Orange in Britain, say that the vast majority [...]...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
BT shares rose 13 per cent after the UK's leading fixed-line telephone company released first-quarter results that beat analysts' expectations. Ian Livingston, chief...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
“Low key” is how BT ( NYSE: BT ) CEO Ian Livingston describes his company’s Q1 results: it’s revenue and profits are falling, broadband adds continue to go up… but not spectacularly so. For the three months to June 30 the company made three percent less revenue at £5.23 billion, at constant currency levels—dragged down by a £124 loss at the Global Services...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- BT Group said Thursday that its first-quarter net profit totaled 214 million pounds, down from 381 million pounds a year ago. Revenue was flat at 5.2 billion pounds. "We have made a solid start to the year against a background of challenging trading conditions. BT Global Services is making progress although there is still much to do," said CEO Ian Livingston. Market...
3wan.net (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
[ft] BT is to double the pace of the roll out of its superfast broadband network, the telecoms company announced on Thursday. It is staking its future on persuading consumers and companies to buy high speed internet services from it. BT said its superfast broadband network will run past 1m homes by March next year, in a move that will double the original pace of the deployment. The network, based on...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
BT chief executive Ian Livingston has announced that the company will revert at least 2,000 call centre jobs from India back to Britain.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
BT chief executive Ian Livingston yesterday announced a £400-a-head pay-out to employees in a compromise deal on a planned pay freeze.
Social Media (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
BT’s CEO greets the Traveling Geeks from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 3-minute video of BT (British Telecom) CEO Ian Livingston I took prior to the gala dinner party BT held for the Traveling Geeks atop the BT Tower in central London. Image via Wikipedia What’s interesting is not the gracious greeting he gave to the Geeks, [...]
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
Should be used to recreate Fighting Fantasy novels The Met police department in the UK has come up with an innovative way of using YouTube's video annotations for anti-knife crime campaign. The concept is that users watch a video on YouTube and then can decide what action to take next thanks to the new feature from Google. In the case of the video it is whether or not to pick up a knife and then later...
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