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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 15:34:44 GMT
- From: monty@vnet.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: British Telecom Profits
- Message-ID: <telecom12.852.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 852, Message 7 of 14
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- Hello,
-
- I recently noticed this on teletext (textual information sent with the
- TV picture -- I don't remember the technical name!):
-
- British Telecom (BT) recently announced pre-tax profits of 1.027bn
- pounds (sterling) for the six months up to 30 September, this being
- 36.2% down on last years figure of 1.61 bn.(NB 1 bn = 100,000,000).
- This (apparently) works out at about 65 pounds profit a second
- (compared to last years 102 pounds). BTs voluntary redundancy program
- has led to a loss of thousands of jobs from the company and a
- reduction in profits due to their payments.
-
- With these sorts of figures, it is not surprising that BT is facing
- stiff competition from other providers (CATV). Perhaps due to this
- and/or excessive profits BT has charge all calls within the UK on
- Sunday afternoon/evening at local rates for two of the last Sundays.
- Maybe they are listening to their customers?? I don't suppose so!
-
-
- Cheers.
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