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Research and Markets: BT Group Avoids a Forced Divesture by Voluntarily Committing to a Functional Separation RestructureDUBLIN, Ireland --(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c64574) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report: Addressing Regulatory Changes Through Organisational Change in a Converging Market - The BT Case to their offering. This Frost & Sullivan research titled Addressing Regulatory Changes Through Organisational Change in a Converging Market. The BT Case provides an analysis of the impact of BT's Enterprise Act undertakings on the company's organisational structure as well as its operations. In this study, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the UK regulatory environment and its effects on the British incumbent telecom operator. Market Overview BT Group Avoids a Forced Divesture In an increasingly competitive telecom scenario and a regulatory environment requiring fair and equal access to the national local access networks, incumbent service providers are being forced to review business operations to keep their companies intact. In the United Kingdom, a strategic review of the telecommunications market conducted by the British communications regulatory body, Ofcom, resulted in BT Group plc, the incumbent operator, offering to reorganise its business units. "In 2005, BT Group voluntarily agreed to reorganise itself and separate its access network from its backbone network and wholesale as well as retail business operations," notes the analyst of this research service. "By doing so, BT avoided further investigation from Ofcom that might have resulted in the compulsory split of the operator into multiple companies." BT Group's Strategy: A Feasible Solution Voluntarily committing to a functional separation restructure, BT Group has been successful in avoiding a forced divesture. It is the first company in Europe to be addressing regulatory requirements in such a novel manner. "Implementing a functional separation strategy that secures compliance with the regulatory bodies' views on fair competition in the local access arena represents multiple organisational, operational and support services challenges to operators," explains the analyst. "However, currently, it appears that BT's strategy is a feasible one that can be regarded as an example to be emulated by other incumbent operators."
- 1. Introduction
-- 1. Executive Summary
--- 1. Executive Summary
--- 2. Study Scope and Research Methodology
-- 2. Overview of Vertical Market IT/Telecom Expenditures
--- 1. Federal Government Market
--- 2. State and Local Government Market
- 2. Market Overview and Trend Analysis
-- 1. Market Overview
--- 1. Market Challenges
--- 2. Market Drivers
--- 3. Market Restraints
-- 2. An Overview of Emerging Market Trends
--- 1. Growth in Teleworkers
--- 2. Wireless Services in Transportation
--- 3. Public Safety Initiative - Reverse 911
--- 4. Municipal WiFi for Video Surveillance
--- 5. Disaster Recovery - Collaborative Initiatives
--- 6. Regional Call Centers - Consortium Buying
- 3. End-User Research - Market Challenges/Business
Priorities/Purchase Decision Criteria
-- 1. Demographic Profile of Survey Sample
--- 1. Employee Size of Organization
--- 2. Government Entity
--- 3. Job Title/Position
--- 4. Functional Area/Department
-- 2. Technology Purchase - Influencers and Decisions Makers
--- 1. Role in Organization's Purchase of Telecom/IT Equipment and
Applications & Services
--- 2. Telecom/IT solutions Purchase - Influencers
--- 3. Telecom/IT Solutions Purchase - Decision Makers
--- 4. Technology Adoption Pattern
-- 3. Challenges Perceived by Buyers -Market Challenges
--- 1. Challenges Faced by Government Agencies in Adopting New
IT/Telecom Technologies
--- 2. Challenges Faced by Government Agencies in Managing Existing
IT/Telecom Technologies
-- 4. Government Vertical Market - Business Priorities
--- 1. What are the market needs?
- 4. End-User Research - Communication Service and Solution Adoption
Trends
-- 1. Technology Usage/Adoption Trends
--- 1. Voice Services/Systems
--- 2. Data Services/Systems
--- 3. Internet Services
--- 4. Business Process Applications/Services
--- 5. Other Applications
-- 2. Managed or Hosted Applications and Services
--- 1. What Percentage of Respondents use Managed or Hosted
Applications and Services?
--- 2. Top Reasons for Organization's Decision to Utilize Managed or
Hosted Applications and Services
--- 3. Decision Criteria for Choosing a Vendor
--- 4. Expected Change in Organization's Usage of Managed Services
over the Next One to Two Years
--- 5. Are the Organization's Managed Services Entirely Managed
in-house or Fully Outsourced or Managed partly in-house and
partly Outsourced?
-- 3. Disaster Recovery Plan -Implementation Trends
--- 1. What is the Availability of a Formal Business Continuity and
Disaster Recovery Plan at Government Organizations?
--- 2. What are the Steps Undertaken as Part of Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery Planning?
--- 3. How Often do Government Organizations Undertake Testing of
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans?
-- 4. Mobile Workforce - Technology Usage Trends
--- 1. What Percent of Government Workforce is Mobile or Consists of
Remote Workers?
--- 2. What Transport Technologies are Used to Connect Mobile/Remote
Workforce at Multiple Locations?
- 5. Buyer Behavior and Market Perception about Vendors
-- 1. Market Perception about Vendors
--- 1. Importance of Statements - Choice of Vendor
--- 2. Satisfaction with Vendor/Provider
--- 3. Reasons for Continuing with Current Vendor/Provider
--- 4. Likelihood of Changing Present Vendor/Provider in Next One-Two
Years
--- 5. Reasons for Changing the Current Vendor/Provider
- 6. Market Outlook
-- 1. Market Outlook
--- 1. End User Analysis - Technology Spending Trends
--- 2. Market Outlook
- 1. Introduction
-- 1. Executive Summary
--- 1. Executive Summary
- 2. BT and a New Regulatory Environment -The Legally Binding
Voluntary Undertakings
-- 1. Market Conditions in the United Kingdom
--- 1. Market Conditions in the United Kingdom
-- 2. BT's Enterprise Act Undertakings
--- 1. The Undertakings
-- 3. Treating all Customers in Equally
--- 1. Equivalence of Input
- 3. BT Reorganisation
-- 1. BT Wholesale Reorganisation
--- 1. BT Wholesale Restructuring
-- 2. BT's New Separate Division. Openreach
--- 1. BT's New Separate Division. Openreach
-- 3. BT Wholesale and BT Retail
--- 1. BT Wholesale and BT Retail
-- 4. BT Group New Organisational Structure
--- 1. BT Group New Organisational Structure
-- 4. Impact of the Undertakings on BT's Operations
-- 1. Creating Chinese Walls: Information Sharing
--- 1. Chinese Walls and Information Sharing
-- 2. Creating Chinese Walls: Commercial Policy
--- 1. Chinese Walls and Commercial Policy
-- 3. Creating Chinese Walls - Pricing
--- 1. Chinese Walls and Pricing
-- 4. Account Management and Exceptions
--- 1. Account Management and Exceptions
-- 5. Account Management and Openreach
--- 1. Account Management and Openreach
-- 6. Support Services
--- 1. Support Systems
- 5. The Equality of Access Board. A Monitoring Body
-- 1. Monitoring Organisation: Equality of Access Board
--- 1. Monitoring Organisation. Equality of Access Board
- 6. Summary and Conclusions
-- 1. Conclusions
--- 1. Conclusions
- 7. Annexes
-- 1. Annex A. Exceptions to Information Sharing & Influencing
Commercial Policy
--- 1. Annex A. Exceptions to Information Sharing & Influencing
Commercial Policy
-- 2. Annex B. Exceptions to Information Sharing
--- 1. Annex B. Exceptions to Information Sharing
-- 3. Annex C. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map - Core
Network Services: Data and Datastream
--- 1. Annex C. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map - Core
Network Services: Data and Datastream
-- 4. Annex D. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map - Core
Network Services: Interconnect
--- 1. Annex D. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map - Core
Network Services: Interconnect
-- 5. Annex E. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map -
Value-added Services
--- 1. Annex E. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map -
Value-added Services
-- 6. Annex F. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map -
Unregulated and New Services
--- 1. Annex F. BT Wholesale Product to Product Grouping Map -
Unregulated and New Services
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