BT wins USD500 million contract

BT Group and US drugs company Bristol-Myers Squibb have signed a USD500
million telecoms contract, according to analysts. The UK telco has refused to
comment on the value of the deal, but according to the CEO of its Global
Services division, Andy Green, it is ‘10 times’ the size of BT’s previous
telecoms projects carried out in the US. Under the terms of the deal, BT will
transfer Bristol-Myers’ voice and data communications network to a high-speed
fibre-optic network based on the latest switching technology. [via telegeography]