[LINK] BT, MICROSOFT FORM BROADBAND ALLIANCE

[Michael Lean]

Interesting bit of news...
Mike

>BT, MICROSOFT FORM BROADBAND ALLIANCE
>British Telecom and Microsoft have forged a formal strategic alliance to
>develop more broadband Internet services, putting BT on an equal footing
>with Microsoft's other global telecom partners (Verizon in the U.S. and KT
>Corp. in Asia). The pact comes on the heels of two other recent deals
>between the two companies -- one focused on developing services that work
>across a variety of Web platforms and the other a partnership to offer
>broadband connections to Microsoft Xbox Live game players. BT and Microsoft
>say the new arrangement will target high-speed Internet applications for
>multimedia home computing as well as for next-generation mobile computing,
>Web services and portals. (Reuters 6 Nov 2002)
>http://shorl.com/jegrefabofuti