BT has today announced a new five year contract to provide ITV with a state-of-the-art digital broadcast network across the UK – enabling them to transfer large amounts of data and uncompressed HD video between sites, at speeds of up to 10Gbits each second.
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A ‘critical appointment’ – director general Tony Hall said that he was excited by Moore’s ideas and vision, which have a ‘boldness’ and ‘originality’ that is what the corporation should offer.
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