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[hamhamham1] 07/9/2018 16:19

There is talk of Verizon's Tim Armstrong being a BT CEO contender on the other site.
Surely not replacing one under performing marketing man with another?

[montyhedge] 07/9/2018 15:21

Lol I do like winding hamhamham up. One day ham you may have enough followers.

[hasin] 07/9/2018 14:21

Hamham 15 followers in less than a year
Monty only 21 since 2005.
Hamham in time Monty won't grate on you so much.

[hamhamham1] 07/9/2018 13:24

Shhh, don't tell monty but he isn't number one most followed :)

[montyhedge] 07/9/2018 12:39

Don't put me in the same sentence as hamhamham, Montyhedge No.1 most followers on Advfn. lol

[hamhamham1] 07/9/2018 07:55

ok fair enough, deleted

[mbmiah] 07/9/2018 07:53

Cos he's the next Monty.....MontyHamHamHam

[toon1966] 07/9/2018 07:47

Why have you posted this here? Why not IAG thread?

[blueteam] 06/9/2018 07:42

Last thing we want is a bidding war as this would push the price well up. Already think it was over valued.

[toon1966] 06/9/2018 07:37

No surprise this sort of story is being reported - Sky Sports 'plot bid to regain Champions League rights from BT' with new deal for grabs in 2019

Will it be Sky Sports only or will another player like Amazon/Netflix or other come in for the UK rights? New BT CEO may also have a say!

[diku] 05/9/2018 21:31

Didn't make much difference...you could have had few pints with the cash...

[smurfy2001] 05/9/2018 21:21

Dividend re-invested average now 257.27p reduced from 258.77p.

[montyhedge] 05/9/2018 17:46

Historically September the worst month on the markets.

[timmy11] 05/9/2018 11:45

hxxp://neconnected.co.uk/bts-new-automation-platfCustomers to benefit from improved visibility and management of their hybrid networking infrastructure

BT today announced the launch of a new Service and Network Automation Platform (SNAP) designed to help customers innovate using the latest software defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) technologies.

The unique platform sits at the heart of BT’s global network. Built with best-in-breed technologies, its flexible architecture allows BT to fully integrate solutions from its partners. Examples of this include SD-WAN controllers from Cisco and Nuage Networks from Nokia. SNAP also works with Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator. Together, this allows BT to offer customers a choice of SD-WAN and NFV managed services such as BT Connect Services Platform.

BT plans to extend orchestration from its core network to major third-party cloud data centres and all the way into customers’ local area networks (LAN) and data centre LANs (DC-LANs). This will provide end-to-end applications visibility, control and configuration from customers’ laptops and devices through to servers in the cloud.

To achieve full compatibility between technologies and high levels of automation SNAP has been built using the latest open source software as well as industry standard languages. These include YANG for network modelling and TOSCA for service definition and VNF service chaining. Control commands can now cascade through BT’s systems taking effect within minutes, something that previously could take weeks.

To help customers navigate their future network roadmaps, BT has pooled its SD-WAN and NFV expertise and key skills into a new Centre of Excellence (CoE). The CoE supports the full life cycle of customers’ SD-WAN or NFV services, collaborating across design and deployment to operations. The integrated team is backed with a programme of investment in training and tools in areas such as YANG, Netconf and TOSCA — new skills that are in very short supply.

The CoE, located across BT’s key development and customer support centres, will be able to uniquely monitor the full extent of a customer’s hybrid network creating a single integrated picture using the latest tools based on AI and machine learning. It will be in a positon to rapidly identify applications performance and prioritisation issues within each layer of a customer’s network.

The CoE employs approaches similar to those used in cloud applications development, such as ‘DevOps’ where teams are set up with all the skills and capabilities needed for the full life cycle of a service. It also aligns with ‘Serverless217; cloud, where the design, provisioning and operation of infrastructure that supports an application are fully outsourced to managed cloud services providers.

Keith Langridge, vice president of network services at BT, said: “We’re investing to make it easier for our customer to take advantage of the latest networking technologies and cloud. Our new Service and Network Automation Platform and Centre of Excellence help customers tap into our wealth of know-how and experience in SDN and NFV. We have created a unique environment in which customers can deploy the latest software defined services alongside their underlying network technologies. This transforms their experience of the journey to SD-WAN and makes the promise of software defined services an operational reality.”

BT’s Dynamic Network Services programme is designed to give customers more choice, security, resilience, service and agility in the roll-out of future networks that support digital transformation. The programme helps customers remove barriers to adoption of SD-WAN and NFV by answering questions about which technologies to use as well as when and how to implement, configure and integrate them with existing networks to create hybrid infrastructure fit for the digital age.orm-accelerates-journey-to-sd-wan

[hamhamham1] 04/9/2018 14:28

If the general market is heading down, then it's heading down. I think there just are too many issues cropping up in this very mature bull market. It was always going to happen, and if not now, then soon.
But as they say "bulls don't die of old age" - as history shows us, it's going to take something to kill it off, it's just working out what and when that happens is the tricky part.

[hamhamham1] 04/9/2018 14:18

Monty says Vodafone are a better buy than BT, Doh, great call! That's all you need to know about him.

[hamhamham1] 04/9/2018 14:16

Monty really hates BT, BT is down because of the general market, he tries to turn it into a BT specific thing, he said best short on the FTSE, well over 50 of the 100 are down more than BT since ex divi day.
Bitter bloke, can't fathom him out.

[smurfy2001] 04/9/2018 12:09

Divi reinvestment for me given the yield

[montyhedge] 04/9/2018 11:46

Can't wait for the new CEO I expect him to do a kitchen sink job and cut the dividend, he can blame the last lot. That's the way bears see it.

[toon1966] 04/9/2018 07:45

BT Wins Five-Year Nhs Health and Social Care Network Contract for South East England - hxxps://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=228145

[boytoy] 03/9/2018 22:26

Auto reinvested mine, good top up...

[nige co] 03/9/2018 16:16

Got mine with the Halifax.