BT Group PLC (formerly known as Britishtelecommunications) which trades as BT (and previously as British telecom) is the privatised former UKstate telecommunications operator.
Previously O2 and Vodafone had expressed anger that rival network EE - formerly known as Everything Everywhere - had been given permission to use its existing 1, 800MHz spectrum to launch a 4G service earlier.
Co-founders Eric Ho, formerly in digital partnerships at American Express, and Stanley Wong, previously an engineer at Sony, started working on Husky Chat full-time in June after a few months of kicking around ideas.