BT is delighted to have been selected as the Official Communications Services Partner for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
We’re starting on a journey we hope will bring us all together and prove an inspiration for years to come.

Following a hard-fought 18 month competitive process, we’ll be providing, in 2012, the UK’s communications services infrastructure for the world’s greatest sporting event. At venues across the UK, our technology, expertise and people will play a critical role in delivering the first Olympic Games staged in Britain since 1948.

As the athletes line up, BT will connect the Olympic venues with the rest of the world, linking athletes and trainers, spectators and sponsors. Our aim is to enable the most connected games ever, with people in the UK and across the globe able to play a part, using different devices and media.

On 14 April we celebrated the first step of our Olympic Games journey with celebration events at BT Tower in London, the National Sailing Academy near Weymouth and Hampden Park in Glasgow. We were joined by London 2012 Chairman Seb Coe, sporting heroes including Dame Kelly Holmes and Dame Ellen MacArthur, Ade Adepitan and several of the UK’s most promising sportsmen and women – who have become BT’s ambassadors for 2012.

We also announced that BT is the founding partner for the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust, which aims to provide essential life skills to aspiring young athletes to help them develop and perform at the top of their ability. As well as providing communications services to the trust, such as broadband and teleconferencing, BT will also encourage its people to volunteer to act as coaches and mentors for the young athletes involved.

An enormous amount of work lies ahead for London 2012. We’ll provide secure, resilientvoice and data services, plus internet access and landlines. We’ll be kitting out the media centre for 20,000 print journalists and broadcasters, and smaller media ‘hubs’, and our networks will deliver event results. We’ll also be providing people power – each year until 2012 we’ll be providing LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) with seconded employees. In return we will receive exclusive marketing rights for London 2012.

The partnership offers a unique and lasting legacy to everyone involved. In addition to a major commercial opportunity, we also have an unmissable chance to showcase our company at its best to a national and global audience. Everyone who works for us will have opportunities to be involved in this amazing partnership. The Games will benefit from unprecedented participation and the UK will be transformed, both by the event itself and the investment in its infrastructure.

Technology and communication is going to be a vast operation. We needed a partner we could absolutely trust to work with us on this journey, one with the right people and technical know-how.

We also need a partner who can creatively explore solutions and opportunities to ensure our Games are the very best they can be. BT gives us this and I’m thrilled a company of such heritage is joining us.

Seb Coe sheds some light on why we were chosen.


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