> On 5 Sep 2014, at 18:38, "Scott Armitage" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Whilst I don’t work in the ISP industry I can only assume this is because of > the aggressively competitve nature of the sector (which limits the ability to > innovate). >
Just in innovation which is a key part of my role at BT BT is the 3rd largest investor in R&D in the UK and 2nd largest fixed line telecoms R&D investor in the world. BT invested over $1Billon in R&D in 2010/11. We employ 17,000 scientists and technologists worldwide and have since 1990 have had over 10,000 patents granted. cheers Neil.
