British American Tobacco (BAT) has selected BT to provide networking managed services, in a deal worth $100 million.

The contract will see the communications giant provide services to nearly 1,000 sites over 119 countries.

Networking services will include infrastructure services including, security services and remote access capability.

Phil Colman, CIO for BAT, said: "We were impressed with BT's extensive global network, its ability to improve services continuously through innovation, and its in-country resources, particularly in the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions."