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14th
May
2013

BT Wi-FI Hits Five Million Hot-Spots

Nearly 189,000 hot-spots in Northern Ireland

10th
May
2013

BT Ireland Revenues up 4% in 2012/13

Increased demand for fibre broadband and networked IT services helps boost BT’s performance in Northern Ireland

10th
May
2013

Northern Ireland: BT Ireland Revenues up 4% in 2012/13

Investment in communications infrastructure, and strong demand for networked IT services, help boost BT’s performance in Ireland.

9th
May
2013

BT Sport Free for Millions of Homes

BT today promised to return sport to grassroots fans as it revealed BT Sport will be free to any consumer BT broadband customer.

2nd
May
2013

The big 50 – BT Young Scientist celebrates milestone year and illustrious history

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD was the first to wish the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition a Happy 50th Birthday today at the launch of a milestone year for the exhibition.

2nd
May
2013

The big 50 – BT Young Scientist celebrates milestone year and illustrious history

Students from Wellington College Belfast were among the first to wish the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition a Happy 50th Birthday today at the launch of a milestone year for the exhibition.

1st
May
2013

Cisco ‘Partner of the Year’ award completes a triple win for BT Ireland

BT Ireland is celebrating after scooping Cisco’s ‘Partner of the Year 2012’ title this week, completing a trio of awards for the IT & Communications provider after it also picked up ‘Partner of Year 2012’ from both Avaya and EMC in recent months.

29th
April
2013

A Fibre Bright Future for Northern Ireland

Study reveals how fibre could offer £750million boost to NI Economy.

10th
April
2013

Lucky 13!

Business Journalists Corporate Challenge to raise funds for Dublin Simon Community - 13th Consecutive Year of Corporate Challenge.

26th
March
2013

Spurs star Gareth Bale joins BT's Sporting Team

Spurs and Wales hero Gareth Bale has signed up to become a BT Ambassador. He will feature in TV adverts for the new BT Sport channels as well as regularly appearing as a guest.

22nd
March
2013

BT Ireland named EMC Irish Partner of the year

BT Ireland has scooped the ‘Irish Partner of the Year’ award at the annual EMC Partner Awards which took place last night at the Dylan Hotel in Dublin.

14th
March
2013

Crossgar phone box is first in Northern Ireland to be transformed into potential life saver.

A BT phone kiosk in Crossgar, County Down has become the first in Northern Ireland to be transformed into a potential life saver - thanks to an initiative by BT, the British Red Cross, Down District Council and the local community.

12th
March
2013

BT Sport sign England legend Lawrence Dallaglio to be lead rugby expert

Former England captain Lawrence Dallaglio has signed with BT Sport to become its leading rugby union expert.

7th
March
2013

Ireland's secondary school students shine at the 2013 BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp

50% of students surveyed at BT Business Bootcamp feel that they do not need to leave Ireland to fulfill their full career potential

4th
March
2013

Tomorrow’s Edisons and Zukerbergs get creative at BT’s Innovation & Mentoring Skills Camp

BT Business Bootcamp 2013 welcomes Ireland’s brightest young business minds to University College Dublin

4th
March
2013

BT Law Ltd To Provide Services to Motor Claims Industry After Being Granted ABS Licence By Solicitors Regulatory Authority

BT today announced the launch of BT Law Limited, a business that will provide legal services to corporate customers, initially in the motor claims market, having been awarded a licence to operate from industry watchdog the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA).

26th February 2013

BSkyB and BT acquire Premier League rights in the Republic of Ireland.

The Premier League is pleased to announce that BSkyB and BT have been awarded seven packages of live audio-visual rights for transmission in the Republic of Ireland for seasons 2013/14 to 2015/16.

25th February 2013

BT Group acquires ESPN’s UK and Ireland television channels business.

BT Group and ESPN announced today that they have agreed that BT will acquire ESPN’s UK and Ireland TV channels business.

6th February 2013

BT Sport logo mixes heritage and innovation

BT today revealed its new BT Sport logo ahead of the company’s launch of new sports channels in the summer.

6th February 2013

BT Blocks Nuisance Calls for customers in Northern Ireland with New BT6500 Phone.

Nuisance calls are a major issue in the UK with BT receiving over 50,000 calls to its Nuisance Calls Advice line every month.

1st February 2013

BT Launches Better Value Totally Unlimited Broadband for Northern Ireland Customers

BT has raised the stakes in the battle for broadband customers by introducing Totally Unlimited Broadband on all but its entry level offerings – and cutting the price.

31st January 2013

BT Group results for the third quarter and nine months to 31st December 2012

BT Group plc (BT.L) today announced its results for the third quarter and nine months to 31 December 2012.

31st January 2013

Clare Balding to front her own sports chat show on BT Sport

Award-winning broadcaster Clare Balding has signed up to present a unique programme for BT Sport.

15th January 2013

BT SmartTalk makes smartphone calls cheaper

BT customers in Northern Ireland could save money on their smartphone calls with BT’s new free SmartTalk app which launched today. It is the first app launched in the UK to link an iPhone with a customer’s home phone calling plan.

14th January 2013

Kinsale Community School, Cork Celebrates 3rd Win in 7 years

Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow are Announced Winners of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2013.

27th December 2012

Space, Mega Robots, Crazy Science and Your Stomach...

Fancy seeing Dr. Who’s Dalek and Star Wars R2D2 go head to head in a battle of the robots?

20th December 2012

New Year’s Eve 2013 celebrations to mark the City’s Sea Change

Anticipation is building for what is set to be a spectacular welcome to City of Culture 2013 on 31st December in Derry~Londonderry.

19th December 2012

BT Ireland scoops Avaya Ireland Partner of the Year Award

BT Ireland has been awarded Ireland Partner of the Year 2012 at Avaya’s annual Partner Awards, which took place in Birmingham.

14th December 2012

BT Builds on Programme Success and Expands Further into Rural Communities

One year on and BT’s Connected Communities programme is rolled out into more rural communities across Northern Ireland.

6th December 2012

BT’s Give As You Earn scheme offers a helping hand to Northern Ireland charities this Christmas

Representatives from five Northern Ireland charities were invited to BT Riverside Tower to accept donations from the BT Northern Ireland Staff Charity Trust.

6th December 2012

BT Flex contact centre officially opens in Belfast, creating over 100 jobs

Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Arlene Foster; with David Curry, a BT Team Manager, at the official opening of BT’s new flexible contact centre in Belfast which has created more than 100 jobs to date in Northern Ireland.

22nd November 2012

Utilities launch winter readiness campaign (Northern Ireland)

The chief executives of Northern Ireland’s main utility companies have met with Stormont Ministers to update them on an ongoing joined-up campaign to prepare for any potential disruption caused by extreme weather.

19th November 2012

Improving access to government services – Wilson

Finance Minister Sammy Wilson today announced BT has been selected as the new NI Direct Strategic partner to help improve the public’s access to government services in a contract worth £20 million.

16th November 2012

NI Science Buffs Get Set for School’s Exhibition

BT today announced that 33 projects from 63 students across Northern Ireland schools have qualified for the next BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, one of the largest and longest-running events of its kind in the world.

13th November 2012

New BT apprentices recruited to help meet the demand for Superfast Broadband services in Northern Ireland.

Hundreds apply for the latest intake of BT engineering apprentices from across Northern Ireland and beyond.

6th November 2012

BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition Entries Keep Climbing for 2013

Over 4,000 students with 1,879 ideas for a better future

1st November 2012

Northern Ireland locations amongst the highest in the UK for fibre broadband uptake

BT has today revealed that many Northern Ireland locations, including Baillies Mills, Campsie, Castlereagh, Helen’s Bay and Dervock, are recording some of the best take-up figures for fibre broadband in the UK.

23rd October 2012

Derry~Londonderry in pole position on broadband as City of Culture draws near

One year after the completion of the major fibre roll-out in Derry-Londonderry, BT, the principal partner of City of Culture 2013, has announced that take-up of high speed fibre broadband is very strong in the region.

25th September 2012

BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition Winners Take First Prize at EU Awards

Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly Awarded First Prize in Physics at EU Young Scientist Competition in Bratislava

11th September 2012

Over 70% of Irish Students Feel That Their Opinions Are Ignored By Adults - BT Survey

BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition reveals key insights into issues students

27th August 2012

Lord David Puttnam to Deliver World Premiere in Education Series from Skibereen to Australia

University modules delivered using technology from BT and Cisco

14th August 2012

BT backs Derry Digital Festival with free places for young people.

BT has today announced its support for CultureTECH, a new media and technology event, which will take place in Derry-Londonderry at the end of August. The company’s involvement will see up to 200 young people being invited to attend the event for free.

31st July 2012

BT Commits to Three Year Deal as Official Communications Partner of Ulster Rugby

BT today announced a three year partnership with Ulster Rugby which sees the two organisations team up until the end of the 2014/15 season and establishes BT as the Official Communications Partner of Ulster Rugby

30th July 2012

BT and Alcatel-Lucent Collaborate to Offer IP VPN Services to Business Customers in Ireland

BT Ireland has confirmed that it will use Alcatel-Lucent's successful IP portfolio (7750 Service Router and 5620 Service Aware Manager), to underpin it's recently launched IP Connect Ireland service as part of its extensive network infrastructure in Ireland.

5th July 2012

Tourism Ireland moves to a BT hosted Cloud platform to cut costs and gain efficiencies.

Tourism Ireland has moved the majority of its IT operations to a private cloud based solution in BT’s Dublin data centre in a five-year deal worth €850,000.

8th June 2012

Lord David Puttnam Partners with BT Ireland to Deliver Education to Students Around the Globe

Lord David Puttnam, today announced a new venture in online education which will see him deliver modules to university students using technology that has been enabled and powered by BT Ireland and Cisco.

23rd May 2012

Northern Ireland: From Analytics to Innovation — Students at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition Adapt to a Changing Ireland

BT today launched the 2013 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition and is calling on students throughout Northern Ireland to enter their ideas and inventions by the 1st October 2012. As part of the launch, BT has released research on trends in the projects entered over the past six years (2007-2012 exhibitions) to understand patterns in students’ thinking, how they make decisions and from where they draw their inspiration and subject matter.

17th May 2012

BT wins £20m contract to partner Belfast Trust in healthcare transformation

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust have chosen BT, one of the world’s leading communications and IT services companies to be the single supplier of voice and data communications in a five-year deal worth up to £20 million.

2nd May 2012

Investment Boost for Northern Ireland as BT Announce Unique New Contact Centre

BT today announced that it is creating a new state-of-the-art contact centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The centre will provide around 120 new jobs for multi-skilled customer service advisors and managers who can work flexibly across any part of BT Group that requires additional resource quickly.

11th April 2012

Broadband race hots up in Northern Ireland as BT Infinity gets even faster — and at no extra cost!

BT Retail has turned up the speed dial in the broadband battle by announcing a range of speed increases for its customers for no extra cost.

28th March 2012

Multi-million euro investment announced for BT's Dublin data centre

BT Radianz awarded "Cloud Computing: Innovation of the Year" Award.

25th March 2012

Next-Generation Entrepreneurs Get to Work at Innovation & Mentoring Skills Camp

BT Radianz awarded "Cloud Computing: Innovation of the Year" Award.

21st March 2012

Irish Stock Exchange Joins BT Radianz Cloud Community

BT and the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) today announced that market data from the ISE is now accessible to the 15,000+ global member sites in the BT Radianz Cloud.

8th March 2012

BT Connect: A New Dimension of Intelligent Networks for Business

BT today announced a significant update to BT Connect, its innovative portfolio of networking solutions for Irish organisations. The move establishes 'intelligence' as a new dimension for the definition of network performance alongside speed, availability, scope, security and resilience.

8th March 2012

BT To Provide Outsourded Network Services to Standard Life

BT has signed a five-year outsourcing deal with Standard Life, a leading provider of long term savings and investments.

16th February 2012

New ‘FOR A PENNY’ Phone and Broadband deal from BT Business

BT Business today announced a new 1p broadband and phone deal to help small and medium businesses in Northern Ireland get more value from their communications spend.

13th January 2012

Synge Street Leaving Cert Students Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly Announced as Winners of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012

The winners of the 48th annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012 have been announced! Students from St. Mary’s College Co. Derry and Ballyclare High School, who this week showcased their projects at the prestigious event, have been formally recognised at the awards.

13th January 2012

Northern Ireland Students Shine at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012

The winners of the 48th annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012 have been announced! Students from St. Mary’s College Co. Derry and Ballyclare High School, who this week showcased their projects at the prestigious event, have been formally recognised at the awards.