The days of the office desk phone could be numbered after BT re-entered the mobile market with a business smartphone that is designed to regain a toehold in a sector it abandoned more than a decade ago.
The telecoms group has launched the “One Phone”, a cloud-based smartphone system that acts like a desk phone when it is used in the office and a normal mobile phone when a worker is on the road.
It is the first in a series of product releases over the coming months as BT re-enters the mobile phone market after having acquired spectrum, the airwaves that carry mobile phone signals, in last year’s 4G auction.
The company, which demerged O2, then called BT Cellnet, in 2001, is the largest