A little like oom really from my point of view - I believe they are the favoured company within their sector and despite the markets - Oftel and the G3 nonsense they will climb back. They pay a divi and this wioll be seen to be increasingly important in the days to come. They have new management and are looking to enhance shareholder value .....

I hold and swing trade a few and not adverse to intraday trading them.

ains


BT in web-based investor relations drive

London, February 7 2003, (netimperative)



by Chris Lake

BT is launching a web-based scheme which it hopes will improve communications with its retail shareholders and help cut costs.


Dubbed 'ShareholderPlus', the system allows investors to sign up and receive BT communications - such as reports, news releases, mandates and, subject to a change in the law, electronic tax vouchers - by email, rather than by post.

BT said this will help it achieve cost savings - by not having to print and despatch reports - and pointed out that it is also good for the environment.

Furthermore, it has negotiated a number of deals with companies such as Virgin Wines, Apollo Travel, RSA and National Car Rental, to market the service and said it will add new offers in the future if it proves to be a success.

BT claims to be one of the first FTSE100 companies to launch such a programme, though it is likely that more will follow.

www.btplc.com/shareholderplus

jesus wepped ......

Markets and the sector are both down lots - its seems probable that BT will follow the trend - no magick or casting of the runes are needed



10 Mar 2003 17:32 GMT



Markets round-up: FTSE 100 slumps to 7-1/2 year low

LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 has ended lower for a fifth straight session, taking the market to a 7-1/2 year closing low as banks slumped and concern grew that a war with Iraq might be days away.
Britain and the United States have said Iraq must disarm by March 17 or face war.

The FTSE 100 .FTSE index ended down 55.6 points, or 1.6 percent, at 3,436.0 points, its lowest level since July 1995. The move also takes the market to less than half of its all-time high of 6,950.6 in December 1999.

"We're so close now to whatever is going to happen with Iraq that the markets are moribund. The high oil price is squeezing economic growth and we're getting poor numbers out of the UK, U.S. and Europe," said Stuart Fraser of fund managers Brewin Dolphin.

However, Fraser said he did not expect the market to fall significantly further, a sentiment echoed by David Franklin, director and fund manager at Christows Stockbrokers.

"I actually find it encouraging in a contrarian way that everyone is bearish at the moment. It means everyone is out of the market. Anyone who is going to sell has gotten out already."

Is heading for 130p and could be a good time to get in at this level although of course we could go lower perhaps as low as 100p but I cannot see that happening for a while yet..

Trader ainsey,

your track record is wonderful - have you been topping up since 240p? Adding to your core holdings? Do you know what a stop loss is??? LOL!

F

Fugitive/dreamer do you really lead such a sad life that you have to spend it spamming all my threads .... try enic and THT or FDBK ..... duh

I have never 'topped up' in my life and have never used such a phrase or trading strategy ...... sounds just like the words you use on advfn .... any chance you wil return there ..... please

LOL! sorry ainsey, can't help it - you have often used the word "adding" to your "long term holdings". Sorry, you are just a joke. Your track record is an absolute disaster. Do you know what a stop loss is??? You were buying at 155 or was it 160, no wait there it was 170, no I am mistaken, it was 190 - well for the benefit of traders with no track record, perhaps you would give us guidance on where we should set a stop.

F

do stop being silly and find some thing to do with yourself .... I have to complete the ENIC acceptance forms - nice 60% gain :-))

oftel ann

By Tim Richardson
Posted: 11/03/2003 at 13:17 GMT


BT Wholesale has published the latest list of exchanges to be converted to ADSL. All should be completed during May, except Wentworth and Brimscombe, which are earmarked for June.

Antrim, Northern Ireland
Badsey, Hereford & Worcester
Devonport, Devon
Dunblane, Central Region
Kidmore End, Oxfordshire

Attleborough, Norfolk
Dronfield, Derbyshire
Highclere, Hampshire
Ingleby Barwick, Cleveland
Kingston Blount, Oxfordshire
Odiham, Hampshire
Southam, Warwickshire
Wormley, Surrey, 300

Wentworth, Surrey, 250
Brimscombe, Gloucestershire

Er, next!

LONDON (AFX) - BT Group PLC today launched another strand of its broadband internet offensive, designed to add 100 mln stg of revenues in the next two years.
BT's Home of Possibilities services will offer customers low cost home monitoring and break-in alerts, computer networking, music and X-Box games.

"At the heart of our vision of the Home of Possibilities is the idea that there's more to an internet connection than just access to the web," said Angus Porter, managing director of BT's consumer unit.

BT wants to grow its 'always on', broadband internet network to 5 mln customers by 2006 from an estimated 1 mln.

ainsoph

Are you bankrupt yet ?

another non- believer ains. should I splat him/

heheheheh, erk, spalat

MIDGER

I think this illustrates where the future is for BT ..... as soon as the war starts they will start bouncing ......

ains





BT offers home security for broadband users
17:34 Wednesday 12th March 2003
Reuters


BT has created new online services, including home security and education, for its broadband customers
BT has embarked on a campaign to promote new broadband services for home users.

The additional services include a house security system, networking for multiple-computer homes, a portable radio that pulls broadcasts off the Internet, the launch of Microsoft's Xbox Live games console, and online education.

These services are expected to generate 100m in extra revenue by 2005 for BT, which faces increased competition in a telephony market showing paltry growth.

BT says it is on target to hit one million broadband users by the middle of this year, but it hopes such services will help get it to a further goal of five million subscribers by 2006.

To dramatically boost the numbers in a country that once lagged on broadband among wealthier nations, BT cut wholesale prices for fast digital subscriber lines to less than 15 a month last April, bringing its retail price down to 27.

"The price of broadband is unlikely to change dramatically," Angus Porter, manager director of BT Consumer, told reporters at a news conference. "The issue is going to be whether the services that broadband can unlock justify (the price)."

Following recent moves by retailers Tesco and Carphone Warehouse into residential phone services, BT appears to be turning the tables. Starting at 28.50 a month for three years, BT said it would also sell home computer systems to time-constrained or less-technically able people, as well as installation, service and support.

The new Internet radio, due for launch in mid-2003, will sell for 160, while equipment to connect two home computers to one broadband line will cost just under 250 when launched this month.

A home monitoring system, which will allow home owners to receive text messages or have neighbours phoned when alarms go off, will sell for 300 with 12 months service from May.

Porter said such applications were already possible, but BT wanted to earn its money by making them simple to use.

Subscriptions for the BT Learning Centre cost 4 a month, and the Xbox Live console will go on sale on Friday.

BT will also be boosting its phone bill by allowing its click & buy online payments service users to put charges on their BT bill starting next month, which gets around the need to give out credit card details on the Internet.

It's now down a whole pound since you starting buying you IDIOT!!!

I`ll bounce him ainslurp,
my this is a fine bottle of White Spirit you dropped off this morning,cheers, ignore them alslop, ignore them, they are brain-dead,old camper ,

rasp, retch,giant cockroaches,eh? hello

heheheh,

MAJORBLITZED, heheh

Back to 155p and up 10.46% on the day with volumes 50% higher than average - easily outperformed sector and market. Interestingly, more volume than OOM which was up 8.9%



ains

Up again today and climbing the top ten gainers on the leader board - now 162.5p with nearly 5 million traded


ains :-))

Owen Gibson media guardian
Friday March 14, 2003

BT has unveiled a host of broadband products aimed at stimulating take up of its high speed internet service - including a portable radio that can connect
to the web.
Angus Porter, the head of BT Retail's consumer division, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that the company's latest push would help them reach customers who were not yet convinced of the benefits of the new technology.

"This is about getting to 2 and 3 million customers and complements what is happening at the other end of the pipe with more content becoming available to users. We're going to have to make the point that you don't need to be a genius to do this stuff," said Mr Porter.

As well as the portable radio, which will allow broadband customers to listen to thousands of internet radio stations anywhere in their house, the new range also includes home security and surveillance products.

BT is also launching a home network system that will allow a single broadband connection to be shared by different computers and appliances without the need for wires.

The company hopes that by launching products such as the radio and promoting its tie up with Microsoft's X-Box games console it can persuade customers who are not heavy web users to invest in the technology.

The X-Box Live service, which launches today, will enable owners of the Microsoft console who have a broadband connection to compete against players across Europe and talk to one another while doing so.

The portable radio, which will retail for 159 and is likely to be bundled with broadband offers, picks up a signal from a unit attached to a PC and tunes in to the thousands of online radio stations on offer.

While BT is confident of reaching its target of 1 million broadband connections by this summer - new customers are signing up at the rate of 25,000 a week - Mr Porter accepted that progressing beyond die-hard web enthusiasts would be more difficult.

Ben Verwaayen, the BT chief executive, last year placed broadband at the centre of the group's strategy for revenue growth and promised to have 5 million connections through BT lines by 2006 in a make-or-break move.

Soon after arriving at BT last February, Mr Verwaayen kick-started the campaign by slashing 10 from the price of a broadband connection and launching a huge advertising push.

However, BT executives privately acknowledge broadband must mean more than faster games and music downloads if it is to appeal to the mass market.

Mr Porter said other products on the way that utilised the technology included security devices, baby monitors and gadgets that took advantage of the "always on" high-speed connection.

good to see BT in the 170's again :-)) ..... shorters seem to have got burned off albeit market looks a tad down on the eve of war


analysts at Investec Securities told clients that it believes BT Wholesale unit will easily meet its target of reducing costs by 200m by the end of this month.


ains

27 more exchanges pass trigger levels
Wednesday 19 March 2003, 2:35:31 AM
United Kingdom
Written by Sarah Brown


World-of-ADSL has reported details about the latest 27 exchanges to pass trigger levels and have ready for service dates set, which will be between May 28 and June 25:



BT Scotland has announced it is to virtually double the coverage of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) broadband in the Highlands.


In the north of Scotland ADSL broadband is currently available only to people in Inverness, Elgin and Culloden, however, support from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is set to deliver broadband services to an additional five exchanges.


BT also added that it is also aiming to enable one more exchange, thus, collectively, the initiative will make the technology available to a third of businesses and households in the Highlands.

BT moving up as rumours come through that US troops are moving forward towards the border .....

Outperforning market and sector @ 175p which is a session high



ains