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LONDON: British Telecom has today announced its plans for a groundbreaking new Fixed-Mobile Converged service for large businesses and multi-national corporates both in and outside the UK.
A BT statement said that this new solution will utilise Wi-Fi as the interface to the fixed network in key locations such as the office, home, and BT Openzone hotspots.
The new enterprise solution will be part of a suite of services that will offer large businesses a chance to bring their fixed and mobile services together and to run a common set of applications and calling features across an integrated IP broadband network.
This will drive enhanced productivity and a reduction in the cost of communications for customers.
Steven Evans, BT’s chief of Wireless Broadband and Future Products, said: “Large customers told us what they wanted and we have listened. This new service will harness the power of Wireless Broadband on customer’s existing fixed infrastructure, BTs 21st Century network and a new generation of dual mode Wi-Fi / GSM mobile phones. “We have chosen Alcatel as our development partner as they bring considerable experience of fixed mobile convergence from our work together on BT Fusion and also from working with our 21CN network development, an essential component of the solution”
BT will be building the solution over the coming months and will be undertaking live pilot implementations with corporate customers in early 2007. BT said the new service, given the project name “Enterprise FMC”, is yet another demonstration of its strategy to deliver to customers the benefits of convenience, cost reductions and the best available connectivity to their corporate information and applications wherever they are at any time.
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