Wins, launches, acquisitions

Wins

BT Global Services announced that Liverpool Direct Limited, a public private partnership between BT and Liverpool City Council, has agreed a £33 million agreement with Liverpool City Council to expand its support to the authority's Careline service. More.

BT Germany has been awarded a contract to operate leading ASP provider Adcotel's central IT systems in one of its data centres. This contract is worth several million euros. More.

NYSE Euronext, the operator of the world's largest and most liquid exchange group, has selected BT to provide resilient connectivity through the new Secured Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) network's hubs in London and Paris. More.

The world's leading chemical company, BASF, has awarded BT a contract to operate its wide-area data network (WAN) in the Asia-Pacific region. BT links more than 750 BASF sites in 80 countries. The new contract covers 17 countries with 234 sites in the Asia-Pacific region. More.

BT has signed a three-year deal to provide and manage fixed and mobile voice services for Metsäliitto Group, the tenth largest forest industry group in the world. Services will be provided across all five of Metsäliitto Group's business units in 23 out of the 30 countries in which it is present. More.

Euroclear, the world's largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, derivatives and fund transactions, has chosen BT's Managed Security Solutions, powered by BT Counterpane, to provide security monitoring and management services. More.

BT has signed a £184m ten year strategic partnership with South Tyneside Council for the creation of jobs and delivery of a number of key council services, including the development of a centre for shared services. More.

BT has won a prestigious Telecom World Middle East award in Best Managed Services category for its Port Ghalib project in Egypt. More.

BT has picked up a top industry award for outstanding business innovation in online customer service and business support. The award, presented by the British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce, recognises quality and best practice in service and the use of innovation to improve commercial performance. More.

Launches

BT has introduced Converged LAN (local area network) in Brazil, allowing organisations to run voice, data and video over a single network based on IP (Internet protocol). More.

BT has launched a new fully managed WAN optimisation service and a new applications performance monitoring service offering corporate customers the chance to improve application performance, boost productivity and maximise return on investments in IT and network resources. More.

A Sustainable Development Index for India has been launched by BT. The SD index has been developed in partnership with GlobeScan. More.

BabyTV BT Vision has showed off the latest arrival to its family of entertainment, BabyTV, a huge collection of programmes specifically designed for growing infants, toddlers and their parents. More.