Posted: 16th Nov, 2011 By: MarkJ


The
Daisy Group, a UK based telecoms and broadband internet supplier, and BTWholesale have today announced a new
strategic agreement that will see Daisy adopting BT's phone, Ethernet and broadband products for use by its existing customer base.
Daisy claims to have tendered its
Carrier Pre-Selection (CPS) traffic to six UK carriers earlier in the year, before picking BT as the successful bidder. As a result the firm will now route the majority of its business customers’ voice services over the BT network.
Matthew Riley, CEO of Daisy Group plc, said:
"Daisy has a long standing relationship with BT and now, having grown to become one of the UK’s leading providers of unified communications, we have been able to build on this partnership to consolidate further our supply chain.
We are also pleased that our enhanced supplier relationship with BT recognises the hard work of our engineering teams throughout the UK, and that we can now add BT’s next generation broadband and Ethernet products to our data portfolio, boosting the quality of the offering we can provide to our SME and Mid Market customers."
Nigel Stagg, CEO of BTWholesale, added:
"We are delighted to have won Daisy’s wholesale calls business and to be able to deepen the partnership between Daisy and Servassure. Extending our already strong supplier relationship will help Daisy to continue to grow and we look forward to working on new opportunities together."
As part of the deal Daisy will also become the "
leading"
third party supplier of PBX telephone systems related maintenance and engineering services to BT, although BT still expects to maintain relationships with other suppliers.