BT unveiled profits from operations up this quarter, mostly off the back of improvements in the group known, or formerly known, as BT Global Services, which is good, yes?! Well no they they also announced a pension deficit of £9Bn, for those of you in Metric that's €10.2Bn or in greenbacks $14Bn. They said they were going into a 17 year recovery plan.
A 17 year recovery plan!! This is a company that has been in recovery since 2001 when it finally figured out that it had a £30bn debt mountain. Whilst smaller atthe time France Telecom and DT where quietly beavering away being modern Telcos BT and their arch rivals CW seemed to lose the plot completely, determinedly launching and relaunching on the International markets, in ever more crazy, expensive and vain-glorious attempts to out AT&T, AT&T.
You have to feel for the current BT management team who will be cleaning up Sir Peter Bonfields mess for another 20 years.
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