BT and MSN to offer webconferencing
13 July 2004
Microsoft and BT have teamed up to deliver a new web conferencing service to customers worldwide.
The new service, which combines BT's audio conferencing services and Microsoft Office Live Meeting, allows users to access the 'Live Meeting' Windows-based interface via a phone and internet-enabled PC.
BT announced that it plans to deploy Microsoft's Live Meeting internationally, starting with the UK and US launch this week. The UK telecoms giant has been testing Live Meeting as an internal pilot program for the past year and claims it has saved the company more than 6.2 million miles of business travel.
The webconferencing facility includes presentation, scheduling and administration features and enables users to present slideshow presentations and conduct more complex collaboration tasks over the internet.
Live Meeting will be priced on a per-minute, named-user or per-seat basis, with pricing packages tailored for individual customers.
"Customers are facing declining budgets in staffing and travel forcing them to improve the quality of communication and collaboration across their company and distributed workgroups," said Anoop Gupta, corporate vice president of the real-time collaboration business unit, Microsoft.
"Today's announcement establishes the relationship between BT and Microsoft to bring real-time collaboration technologies to customers."
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