High Speed Broadband Services for Businesses in Northern Ireland

Peter Evans, Strategy Director, BT Ireland

Brussels – 19th September 2012

© British Telecommunications plc

We:• Employ 3,000 people.

• Deliver annual revenues of over €900m.

• Serve over 60% of the companies listed on the ISEQ.

• Own and maintain the largest fibre network on the island.

• Have invested over €140m in past 2 years on network enhancements as an enabler for cloud-based services.

• Provide outsourced network & IT services for 3 out of the 4 mobile operators in the Republic of Ireland.

• Run the largest ICT training operation on the island.

• Run mission critical services for governments across the island e.g. the ECAS (999/112).

• Have two tier 3 data centres in Ireland.

• Invest over €940m annually on global research & development - one of our Global Development Centres is located in Belfast.

Named largest IT reseller in Ireland (Ranked #1 Irish Computer)

#1Ranked number 2 in Irish Computer for IT services companies in Ireland

#2

• 13th year as sponsor and organiser of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

• Over £1m invested in community projects on the island

• Connected Communities projects tackling digital exclusion

• Support the Tyndall Institute and The University of Ulster

• Principle partner of the Derry~Londonderry UK City of Culture 2013

• Over 29% of our employees are volunteers in BT-supported community initiatives

We support our communities:

A little bit about BT in Ireland….

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Mar 2009 Dec 2009- Mar 2011

Jan 2011 Jan 2011

Northern Ireland’s Next Generation Broadband Journey

Balmoral, Newtownards, Bangor, and Lisburn

become the first locations passed by BT

Fibre programme (279 cabinets)

As part of the multi-million £ partnership BT fibre enables all

Derry City cabinets (110

cabinets)

1,265 cabinets across 169 exchange

areas by April 2011

Additional 23 cabinets in rural

areas

Feb 2011

BT partners with DETI on Next Generation

Broadband Project (£51M)

BT announces NGB fibre

investment, as part of £2.5bn

UK-wide project

Fibre contract awarded through

NI Broadband Fund, includes

investment by BT

BT becomes first partner of Derry~

Londonderry UK City of

Culture 2013

BT accelerates its NI rollout of NGB Fibre, as

part of £2.5bn UK wide project

90% of Northern Ireland

premises connected to a fibre cabinet by March 2012 (783

cabinets)

•2.5% of UK premises are in NI•8% of UK FTTC premises in NI •12.5% of UK FTTC base in NI

100,000th Customer this week…!

Super-connecting the Region....

Schools, colleges & Universities

Private Sector –

businesses large and

small

Health organisations

Street Wardens

Blue Light

Communities

Mobile Care

Workers

Home Workers

Enterprise Zones

Local Authority

BT NETWORK

Age Inclusion

Digital education services centred around schools but extended to

parent-participation and all citizens

Enable and increase

e-health services

Enable and increase

e-health services

Putting more services online which can save

money and raise service levels

Improve home working capability

Enable businesses to

thrive and grow

Connected communities

Reduce crime through improved

security management systems

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Some Examples of how High Speed Broadband is helping Northern Ireland businesses to compete....

Tommy Leckey, Photographer, Killough“Fibre has provided me with a faster, better

service and the ability to send many files simultaneously has really helped me out.  It has revolutionised my business and allowed me to

utilise different software packages that I couldn't previously take advantage of due to poor

download speeds - this isn't a problem anymore!”

“We use superfast broadband for multiple purposes - free wifi for guests, the cash tills work

on EPOS technology enabling data/pricing changes to be made quickly and the CCTV is carried over broadband for remote monitoring.  It gives great peace of mind and enables us to deliver better

service to our customers.  We have even seen an increase in website enquiries from all over the

world.”

Olga Walls, Derg Arms, Castlederg

Having fibre broadband means significant savings for us. We really need the speed for rich media,

such as hosting Video calls with colleagues in GB. We also use the fibre broadband as resilience for our cloud applications. I only wish we’d had this

capability years ago...”

Brian Law, FP McCann, Maghera

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Some more examples....

Geoffrey Simpson - Viewback Antiques and Auctions, Omagh

“I’m half way up a mountain but even so I am getting a much better speed since I installed fibre broadband. It has allowed me to create a live internet bidding service, so that when we hold auctions we have people from all over the UK, the US, Australia and even China taking part. Our website averages

150,000 hits a day recently, so we have to have the bandwidth to handle that demand.”

“Fibre broadband has made a significant difference to my business. Yes, speed is the obvious benefit, it cannot be

underestimated, we are based in a rural location and faster broadband has increased the efficiency of my business when buying, selling and invoicing all over Europe  We will never return to standard broadband.

“Our traditional draper / gift shop business, operating since 1935, has grown since we launched our giftwareireland.com

website. I got fibre broadband last year and couldn’t contemplate going back to lower speeds. Our sites are now open 24 hours and available worldwide – I even get orders

on Christmas Day. We ship Titanic mugs to Belgium and turf crosses to Korea – all from the office in the shop.”

Terry Kelly - Container Sales NI, Sixmilecross, Tyrone

R&J Hillis - giftwareireland.com, Portrush

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Video Testimonials

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Thank You !

Questions ?