20
BT Group
(LSE: BT.A)
UK
There was a time when British Telecom Group seemed to try to get into just about everything related to telecommunications. But that strategy led the company deep into debt—and forced it to spin off its mobile-phone unit to dig itself out of the hole. Smart move. The refocused carrier today is back on its feet and doing just fine, thank you. Now, BT is busy building up-and-coming technologies such as Internet telephony and wireless networking, and recently announced plans to blanket a dozen British cities with Wi-Fi service. And it has homed in on small and midsize enterprises, with the result that half of all such companies in Britain that have broadband use BT services.
Company Info |
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| 2005 Rank | 13 |
| Sales* ($ Millions) | 36,510.7 |
| Sales Growth (over prev. year) |
6 % |
| Profits* ($ Millions) | 2,894.4 |
| Return on Equity | 99.5 % |
| Total Return on Sales (12-mo.) | 15.5 |
| Share Price As of 5/31/06 | 4.38 |
| CURRENT MARKET INFO | LSE: BT.A |
| No. of Employees | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| COMPANY WEB SITE > | |
*Trailing 12 months
Stock price data as of 5/31/06
DATA: Standard & Poor's Compustat
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Company Snapshot
BT Group, through its subsidiaries, provides communications solutions and services to business, residential, and wholesale customers in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. It principally offers networked IT services; local, national, and international telecommunications services; and broadband and Internet products and services. The company provides various communications products and services, including voice, data, mobility, Internet, and multimedia services; offers a range of managed and packaged communications solutions; and provides a portfolio of networked IT services focused on messaging and conferencing, customer relationship management, convergence, outsourcing, applications hosting, and security. It also offers consultancy services to help organizations understand network performance, and operate their networks and applications. As of Mar. 31, 2006, the company had approximately 1.5 million business customers with approximately 8 million exchange lines, as well as approximately 18 million consumer customers with approximately 20 million residential customer lines in tBritain. It also provided network services and solutions to approximately 700 communications companies, including fixed and mobile network operators, Internet service providers, and other service providers in Britain, as of the above date. BT Group has strategic partnerships with Accenture, Cisco, Computer Sciences, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, and Nortel. The company was founded in 1981. It was formerly known as Newgate Telecommunications and changed its name to BT Group in 2001. BT Group is based in London.
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