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EPS: earnings per share
ESIP (BT Group Employee Share Investment
Plan): a plan under which BT can provide free
shares to employees, and employees can buy
shares in BT from pre-tax salaries
Ethernet: a widely-deployed network
transmission technology that transports large
amounts of data in a fast, assured and highly
cost-efficient manner
FTTC: fibre-to-the-cabinet – a variant of GEA
which uses fibre to provide high connection
speeds from the exchange to a street cabinet
near to a customer premises, and a copper line
for the final connection to the premises
FTTP: fibre-to-the-premises – a variant of
GEA which uses fibre to provide high
connection speeds for the whole route from
the exchange to the customer
FVA: Fibre Voice Access
GEA: Generic Ethernet Access
GLOP (BT Group Legacy Option Plan): a share
option plan. This plan was last used in 2001
GPoP: global points of presence
GSOP (BT Group Global Share Option Plan): a
share option plan. This plan was last used in
2004
HMRC: Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs
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ADS: American Depositary Share
ADSL: asymmetric digital subscriber line – a
broadband service where existing wires
between the local telephone exchange and a
customer’s telephone sockets are transformed
into a high-speed digital line. Asymmetric
refers to differing downstream and upstream
bandwidths
ADSL2+: an enhanced version of ADSL,
enabling the provision of higher speed
connections
Allshare International: a free shares all-
employee plan for countries outside the UK.
The last Allshare International award was
made in 2011
ARPU: average revenue per consumer user
BACS: Bankers Automated Clearing System
BDUK: Broadband Delivery UK
Broadband: comes from ‘broad bandwidth’
and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-
way link between an end-user and an access
network supplier – capable of carrying a wide
range of applications
BT Group Easyshare: a corporate sponsored
nominee account administered by Equiniti,
BT’s Registrar, for holding BT Group plc shares
electronically
BTPS (BT Pension Scheme): the defined
benefit pension scheme which was closed to
new members on 31 March 2001
BTRP (BT Retirement Plan): the defined
contribution pension arrangement which was
introduced for new BT employees from 1 April
2001 and was closed to new members on
31 March 2009
BTRSS (BT Retirement Saving Scheme): the
scheme set up on 1 April 2009 as successor to
the BTRP. It is a contract based, defined
contribution arrangement
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CARE: career average re-valued earnings
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CGU: cash generating unit
cloud computing or cloud-based services: a
type of computing that relies on sharing
computer resources rather than having local
servers or personal devices to handle
applications
CP: communications provider
CPI: Consumer Prices Index
CR: corporate responsibility
CRM: customer relationship management
CSI: climate stabilising intensity index
CWU: Communication Workers Union
DBP (BT Group Deferred Bonus Plan): a plan
under which share awards are granted to
selected employees of the group
DSL: digital subscriber line – a broadband
service where existing wires between the local
telephone exchange and a customer’s
telephone sockets are transformed into a
high-speed digital line
EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxation,
depreciation and amortisation
EMEA: Europe, Middle East and Africa
Employee Sharesave Plan: an HMRC-
approved savings-related share option plan
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