In a bid to deliver cost efficiencies and
enhancemobile broadband experiences,
BThas announced a new managed network solutions
agreement with O2 that will see BT Wholesale provide and manage
high speed connectivity between the majority of O2’s base stations
and its core national network in the UK.
Under the terms of the five-year agreement, BT will design and
deliver a communications infrastructure that is designed to enable
O2 to manage the predicted
increases in network traffic caused by new bandwidth-intensive
handsets, reducing the need to invest heavily in significant
and advanced network upgrading.
The technological foundation for the service will be
BT’s new 21st Century Network-enabled Ethernet service. BT
claims that its next-generation service will deliver to
communications services providers scalable bandwidth to meet
increased demand flexibly, with costs matching actual traffic and
revenue increases.
One typical service will be O2 Business Broadband which O2
launched on 1 May. The business grade broadband package is
compatible with BT analogue lines are is designed to allow a small
office to access the Internet and stay connected.
At download speeds of up to 20 Mbps, O2 claims that Business
Broadband will offer some of the fastest internet connections for
business in the UK. Customers outside of the coverage on the O2
Broadband LLU network will be able to receive O2 Business Broadband
Access which provides download speeds of up to 8 Mbps with the same
features and benefits of O2 Business Broadband.