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107
Call growth
YEARS ENDED 31 MARCH
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
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% growth in fixed network call volumes over the previous year:
Inland 7 6 7 7 9
International (a) 5 9 7 9 11
000000005!!!0000000511
(a) Outgoing, incoming and transit.
Growth is estimated by reference to turnover growth attributable to calls, adjusted to eliminate the effect of price changes.
Exchange line connections
AT 31 MARCH
Business (’000) 6,459 6,798 7,160 7,521 7,982
% growth over previous year 5.4 5.2 5.3 5.0 6.1
Residential (’000) 20,613 20,500 20,393 20,130 20,067
% growth (reduction) over previous year 0.7 (0.5) (0.5) (1.3) (0.3)
000000005!!!0000000511
Total exchange line connections (’000) 27,072 27,298 27,553 27,651 28,049
% growth over previous year 1.8 0.8 0.9 0.4 1.4
000000005!!!0000000511
BT Cellnet (Cellular telephones in the UK)
AT 31 MARCH
Digital GSM (’000) 34 353 1,125 2,303 4,163
Analogue (’000) 1,700 2,036 1,573 774 359
000000005!!!0000000511
Total (’000) 1,734 2,389 2,698 3,077 4,522
% growth over previous year 70.2 37.8 12.9 14.0 47.0
000000005!!!0000000511
Optical fibre
AT 31 MARCH
Fibre – kilometres in the network (’000) 2,782 3,043 3,302 3,591 4,058
000000005!!!0000000511
Payphones
AT 31 MARCH
Total public payphones in the UK (’000) 129 133 136 138 142
000000005!!!0000000511
People employed
AT 31 MARCH
Total employees (’000) 137.5 130.7 127.5 124.7 124.7
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Classified directory business in the UK
The company is providing the following information with respect to its classified directory business in the UK in accordance
with undertakings made with the Office of Fair Trading in 1996. For the year ended 31 March 1999, the classified directory
business of BT made an operating profit of £190m (1998 – £179m) on turnover of £439m (1998 – £420m) and, at 31 March 1999,
it employed net assets of £151m (1998 – £136m). Since the classified directory business is integrated with the company’s
wider operations, this financial information incorporates the effects of certain apportionments and allocations of expenditures
and assets.
BT is required to submit annual audited accounts in respect of the classified directory business to the Director of the Office of
Fair Trading within nine months of the company’s financial year end. Copies of these accounts, when available, may be
obtained free of charge from the Financial Director, Yellow Pages at Queens Walk, Reading, RG1 7PT.
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