BT preliminary results - year to March 31, 2008

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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BT (LSE: BT.A)(NYSE: BT) revenue was 2 per cent higher at £5,422 million in the quarter with continued growth in new wave revenue. EBITDA before specific items and leaver costs grew by 2 per cent, the ninth consecutive quarter of year on year growth.

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Broadband is at the centre of our strategy. Broadband revenue grew by 25 per cent year on year and net additions were 150,000, taking us to 4.4 million customers, and retaining our status as the UK’s most popular broadband supplier. BT’s retail market share of net additions of DSL and LLU connections in the quarter was 30 per cent, the sixth consecutive quarter of achieving 30 per cent market share or more. We continue to offer customers more than just an access product, with a wide range of additional services. Our popular Home IT Support Service provided our subscriptions customers jargon free help and support on wireless broadband, email, computer viruses and spyware. We had 41,000 customers at March 31, 2008 compared with 23,000 in the prior year.

The roll out of our next generation television service, BT Vision, accelerated during the quarter, with customer numbers reaching 214,000. We also signed an additional content deal with Disney ABC International Television. Of the 94,000 net additions in the quarter, the subscription attachment rate at point of sale averaged 68 per cent. The average number of views across all subscribers averaged 29 views per subscriber per month.

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