{"id":9998,"date":"2015-08-26T07:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2015-08-26T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T06:46:47","slug":"uk-and-n-ireland-isp-rainbow-comms-signs-bt-wholesale-supply-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/08\/uk-and-n-ireland-isp-rainbow-comms-signs-bt-wholesale-supply-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"UK and N.Ireland ISP Rainbow Comms Signs BT Wholesale Supply Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowtele.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rainbow Communications<\/a>, which last year gobbled 10,000 of UTV Connect&#8217;s residential and business Internet access subscribers for an undisclosed sum (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/06\/rainbow-communications-gobbles-n-ireland-isp-utv-connect.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), has recently signed a new multi-million pound deal with BTWholesale for the supply of managed broadband and phone services.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sadly not much has been revealed about the two year deal, although BTWholesale&#8217;s <strong>Frank McManus<\/strong> does hint that it will give Rainbow access to, among other things, &#8220;<em>next generation cloud services, voice over IP and hosted applications<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Eric Carson, Director of Rainbow Communications, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Rainbow is committed to delivering a quality and reliable service to our customers. 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