24 May 2002
Centrica is creating a head of communications role for its telecoms
arm, which includes One...The group - headed by CEO Roy Gardner - is in the process of recruiting
to fill the top telecoms PR ...
the creation
of the role reflects the growth of the telecoms division, which last
July bought One.Tel UK in a £58m deal. 'Our organisation had someone in the Centrica telecom business based in
Manchester but now ...
17 May 2002
| by JOE LEPPER
British Telecom is to launch a PR campaign to drive through a
radical shake-up of the way people...The telecoms giant is to enter the micropayment market for the first
time this September. Micropayments involve online content providers charging internet users
small amounts for services, such as archive material. It is hoped these
charges will eventually replace ads as a major source of income ...
16 May 2002
Analysis of the responses to this year's league table suggest, however,
that PR expenditure on IT and telecoms may have grown by about 10% to
around £130m - outweighed by the two-thirds drop on support for
e-commerce projects, from £25m to £9m. A relieved Jonathan Shore, managing director of Cohn We
spent 2000 ruing ...
03 May 2002
| by ALASTAIR RAY
, consultancies focusing purely on
the tech, telecoms and financial sectors saw a decrease in fee
income ...