Business Performance Revenues Up by 2% to £20.7 Billion - BT Group Financial Highlights - FY 2007/8
BT Group's financial highlights for FY 2007/8 include revenue growth, earnings per share increase, and global expansion. The report details revenue by customer, global employee distribution, and strategic initiatives in broadband services and customer service.
Business Performance Revenues Up by 2% to £20.7 Billion - BT Group Financial Highlights - FY 2007/8
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Sir Michael Rake Chairman
Business Performance Revenues up by 2% to £20.7 billion Pre-tax profit* £2.5 billion Earnings per share* up 5% at 23.9p Free cash flow up 11% at £1.5 billion * Before specific items
Dividends 15.8 15.1 11.9 10.4 8.5 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6 2006/7 2007/8 Dividends per share
Ian Livingston CEO
FY 2007/8 – Group financial headlines Group revenue £20.7bn 2% EBITDA (1) £5.8bn 3% Earnings per share (1) 23.9p 5% Free cash flow £1.5bn 11% Dividend 15.8p 5% (1) Before specific items
Earnings per Share* - 41% growth in 4 years Pence per share * Before specific items
Strength in mix of customers and businesses FY 2007/8 – revenue by customer Corporate Consumer 24% 37% 26% 13% Carrier Business
BT is truly a global company Russia / CEE 400 employees Revenue £28m UK 91,300 employees Revenue £17.2bn North America 3,800 employees Revenue £730m Western Europe 10,500 employees Revenue £2.6bn Latin America 900 employees Revenue £76m Asia Pac 5,000 employees Revenue £132m MEA 200 employees Revenue £34m 112,000 BT people Revenue £20.7bn in 07/08
Corporate Strong growth in revenue driven by very strong global order book 31% growth
Carrier - Openreach 28,000,000 lines 13,000,000 broadband connections Service to over 450 communicator providers • Reduced access network faults by 10% • Provision and repair lead times halved
Broadband availability by country DSL Coverage by country June 2007 100% 99% 97% 95% 90% 82% 78% 10% OECDWeightedAverage Source : OECD Telecommunications Database
Carrier - BT Wholesale Affected by regulatory change Decline in low margin transit Introduced family of 21CN ‘smart’ broadband services Higher speeds Flexible bandwidth Quality control for video £1.8bn of contracts signed in 2007/8
BT Business Helping businesses do what they do best
BT Business Revenue growth % From 5% decline to 5% growth (annual 05/06 to 07/08)
Consumer Serving 15 million households UK’s No.1 retail broadband provider - 4.4m connections Value for money Innovative products Service
Consumer - delivering value for money Calls – Package prices more than halved in 2 years - Anytime from £14.50 to £5.95 - Evenings/Weekends from £5.50 to £2.70 Broadband – Prices halved since 2001 - Speeds up 16 fold And – Calling BT is now free
Consumer - BT Total Broadband – innovative products BT ToGo Security & Storage BT Broadband Talk Entertainment Wireless Networks Monitoring and Control Gaming Home IT advisor
Priorities No. 1 for customer service Investing in platforms, globally Agility Continue to deliver for customers and shareholders
Customer service • Dissatisfaction with telephony repair reduced by 25% • Broadband repair & help – dissatisfaction reduced by a third • 17% reduction in complaint volumes • Abandoned calls halved But – a lot more to do
Next Generation Broadband: A bold vision for the UK UK’s biggest super fast broadband investment: £1.5 bn Accessible by up to 10 million homes by 2012 Range of speeds up to 100mbps: with >1,000mbps potential BUT we need the barriers to investment removed 2
What it means for consumers TODAY… TOMORROW… Fast internet... Multi viewing HD TV... Instant messaging… Advanced HD gaming… VoIP… HD video conferencing… BT Vision… A world of new possibilities iPlayer… 8
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Priorities No. 1 for customer service Investing in platforms, globally Agility Continue to deliver for customers and shareholders