Telcos need to seriously question cloud, says British Gas technology director

With nearly two decades of experience spanning the telecoms and IT sectors, Kassir Hussain, director of technology at British Gas and former telco innovation lead sat down to speak with Business Cloud News about a range of topics including how the cloud forms the foundation of the company’s new connected homes initiative, and his thoughts on how his former employers – the telcos – are faring in the increasingly competitive cloud arena.At the end of last year British Gas launched a product called remote heating and cooling which allows customers to do exactly that – control their thermostats using the cloud via smartphones or desktops. “It had some success at that point but British Gas said they needed to do something very different and set up a separate business unit, giving it the focus of the connected homes products,” Hussain says.