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BT: Scottish & Southern Energy Selects Bt Wholesale To Underpin Integrated Communications Service; New three year White Label Managed Services agreement to provide voice, high speed broadband and associated services(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) RDATE:06022008 Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), one of the UK's leading energy providers, and BT today announced a new strategic partnership that sees BT become the provider of integrated voice and broadband services to SSE for resale to its UK customers. Under the terms of the three year agreement, BT Wholesale will support SSE's expansion plans to become a high quality, national provider of integrated communications services to its 8.5 million customers in the UK. The service is expected to launch this summer. The agreement also includes second line customer support and the development of a customised online portal that will enable SSE's customers to access the service. SSE is an existing BT Wholesale customer, offering telephony services to around 150,000 customers across the UK. Today's agreement builds on that relationship and will enables SSE to rapidly bring high speed broadband and voice services to its home energy customers under BT Wholesale's white label managed services portfolio. These new services will enhance SSE's existing customer portfolio of services and help maintain customer satisfaction levels. Commenting on the agreement, Itret Latif, Telecoms Business manager at SSE, said: "Scottish & Southern Energy wanted a partner that could support us with the best suite of integrated communications services quickly, nationally and with minimal capital and operational risk to our business. We're enhancing our offer in today's fiercely competitive market, by building on our relationship with BT. This will help us become a trusted converged services supplier for our customers across the UK." Sally Davis, chief executive at BT Wholesale, said: "This agreement is further testament to the strength of BT Wholesale's Managed Network Solutions strategy. BT will help to quickly enhance Scottish & Southern Energy's service offerings to its customers with a service that is both competitive and dynamic. Today's announcement is additional recognition of how BT's world class capabilities can help enhance customer quality and choice." About BT BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale. In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc's revenue was GBP20,223 million with profit before taxation of GBP2,484 million. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt CONTACT: Anna Easton / Mike Witts, BT Group Newsroom Tel: +44 (0)20 7356 5369 WWW: http://www.btplc.com/News ((M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected])). Copyright ? 2008 M2 Communications Ltd. |