John Loftus

BT Ireland

BT Ireland, a fully owned subsidiary of BT Group, is one of Ireland's leading IT communications services providers with over 650 employees across Ireland. Through our unique combination of global and domestic capabilities, BT Ireland delivers integrated and secure communications and IT services to major multinational companies. These include contact centre solutions, data centre and managed services delivery, network, security, cloud, communications, and collaboration solutions. In Ireland, our Wholesale business serves the needs of other service providers, both local operators and global carriers. We are Europe's largest telecoms services wholesaler by revenue and market share, and the second largest fixed line wholesaler in the Republic of Ireland, serving over 50 operators. Our portfolio is a powerful combination of data networking connectivity, carrier voice, data centre, next-gen fibre broadband and line rental reseller services. Communications can be a complex business and to help our Wholesale customers optimise their network and their business we offer flexible managed services to support you every step of the way. Our network and integrated solutions enable our customers (and in turn, their customers) to communicate, collaborate and connect easily and securely to the applications and data they need, whenever and wherever they need them. BT Ireland operates the Emergency Call Answering Service (999/112) on behalf of the Irish State. BT has developed key strategic partnerships with technology leaders, including Cisco, Avaya, Microsoft, HP, Apple, Dell, Oracle and VMware. In addition, BT has been certified with the Business Working Responsibly Mark, and independent audit by the National Standards Authority of Ireland and Business in the Community Ireland. As part of our responsible business leadership, we organise the annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, now in its 23rd year.