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| Total turnover, including
share of ventures |
£212m |
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| Group turnover |
£167m |
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| EBITDA loss |
£(253)m |
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| Operating loss before goodwill
amortisation |
£(296)m |
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| Capital expenditure on plant,
equipment and property |
£25m |
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| Net operating liabilities
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£(17)m |
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| Share of ventures’ net
assets, including goodwill |
£12m |
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| Employees |
700 |
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BTopenworld brings together, in a single mass-market business, all
of our UK ISPs and portals (both dial-up and broadband) serving
the needs of both the consumer and the small and medium-sized business
customer.
BTopenworld’s strategy focuses on growing average revenue
per customer through added-value services, such as narrowband internet,
fast internet and video centric services.
Internet services earn us revenue directly, through subscriptions,
e-commerce and advertising, and indirectly, through increased network
usage.
BTopenworld has approximately 1.25 million active customers (i.e.
customers accessing BTopenworld’s internet products on a regular
basis) on its dial-up narrowband internet (BTinternet, Connect2Business
and BTAccess) and BTopenworld broadband services. BTopenworld remains
one of the largest unmetered internet access providers in the UK,
with almost 700,000 customers on its unmetered access packages (including
25,000 customers on its BTopenworld broadband service).
BTopenworld also manages our other internet ventures in the UK:
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our 50/50 joint venture with LookSmart,
a leading US-based online navigation company, which creates
and distributes internet portal services throughout Europe
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ExciteUK, our joint venture
with Excite, in which we have a 42% stake; and |
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our virtual ISP services,
which provide internet access service on a wholesale basis
for companies such as Dell, WH Smith and ONdigital. |
BTopenworld has launched a range of mass-market
broadband services aimed at consumers, small businesses and
teleworkers.
We continue to develop a range of tools, including communications,
navigation and personalisation, all of which will be linked and
made available through a Personal openworld Portal accessible across
a number of devices.
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