BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Its principal activities include IT and networking services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services.

BT consists principally of three lines of business:

• BT Retail, providing a comprehensive range of communications and
  related services to over 20m UK consumers and businesses.
  
• BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK
  to more than 600 fixed and mobile operators and service providers
  including the provision of broadband, private circuits.
  
• BT Global Services, providing IT and networking services to meet the
  needs of multi-site organisations globally. BT Global Services operates in
  more than 130 countries and also offers international carrier services.

In the year ended 31 March 2004, BT Group’s turnover was £18,519 million
with profit before goodwill amortisation, exceptional items and taxation of £2,013
million.

BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group.

For more information, visit www.btplc.com

BT in Ireland helps organisations large and small, corporate and public, Irish and global to thrive through the provision of networked IT services.

BT operates across Ireland, north and south. With over 3,000 employees, the company is headquartered in Dublin and Belfast, with offices in Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services.

BT believes that the future of communications depends on continuous infrastructure development as well as using the most innovative and sophisticated technology. Our continued investment in both means that the BT broadband network offers unequalled speed and reliability, and provides almost unlimited scalability to our customers.

Our fibre optic network, submarine cables, wireless, radio access and trunk networks provide a unique operating network offering complete resilience. The quality of the BT network is further endorsed by our partnership with world-class technology providers such as Nortel and Cisco. BT is the only accredited Cisco Powered Network in Ireland.

As a result of this, BT offers complete reliability with proactive network fault tracking to customers through our Network Management Centre. This managed network facility ensures that we can respond and react quickly to any issues.

BT is at the forefront of telecommunications technology.

Working for us will afford you the opportunity to work with this technology and provide you with the skills to build your career in the telecommunications industry.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom we are part of one of the biggest telecommunications companies in the world. This will open many doors for you and enable you to work with the best people in the telecommunication field.

Our compensation and benefits packages are amongst the most competitive in the industry. They include pension, education sponsorship, health insurance, share ownership scheme etc.

Your continuing career and personal development at BT is assured as you will be facilitated in same by our in-house training department.

BT is an equal opportunities employer.

BT offers its employees competitive salaries and a generous package of benefits and allowances that include:

S4
This employee share ownership scheme allows annual bonus to be paid in BT shares or cash, which can be topped up from your pre-tax salary.

Health Insurance
BT offers all its permanent employees fully-subsidised health insurance provided by either VHI or BUPA.

Pension
All permanent employees are entitled to join our defined contribution scheme after six months service.

Holidays
BT rewards your continued loyalty with more holidays. The standard holiday allowance of 22 days is increased by one day for each year of service after two completed years, up to a maximum of 25 days.

Flexible start and finish times
We know how stressful commuting and childcare arrangements can be, that's why our starting and finishing times can be made more flexible to suit you.

Education sponsorship
Because BT is committed to investing in its staff, we cover 50% of work-related educational courses.

Our other staff benefits include life insurance, a salary protection scheme and a range of social and sporting activities

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BT has developed world-class strategic partnerships to provide you with end-to-end, integrated solutions. Our competencies and those of our strategic partners enable us to offer you a wide choice of innovative and inspirational solutions.

By combining our fundamental strengths and geographical reach, we can assist your business to increase productivity, business agility and in turn, your competitive edge.

Our strategic partnerships enable you to make continuous improvements to your business. By conducting joint R&D with many of our partners it signifies our long-term commitment to all of our customers.

Securing tailored, simplified solutions and transparent pricing from one supplier will enable you to take control of your strategic projects.

Our strategic partners include Accenture, Avaya, BearingPoint, Cisco and HP.

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The BT Safe Surfing guide can help you make informed decisions about how your family uses the Internet. Learn more about security, privacy, and ensuring your children’s safety online. Click here to view our Safe Surfing guide.

BT has launched a website that includes a 'carbon calculator'. The climate change site enables visitors to calculate their annual carbon dioxide usage at any point in time, based on their fuel consumption at home and travel patterns including flights and yearly road and rail mileage. The calculator also lets users change their profile over time, illustrating how their carbon footprint changes with each action they take. This is the link to the Climate Change site: http://www.btplc.com/climatechange/

BT Ireland recognises that in our day-to-day operations, we as a business inevitably impact on the environment in a number of ways. We are cognisant of this and are committed to minimising the potentially harmful effects of our activities wherever and whenever possible.

This policy statement provides the framework on which our environmental programme is based. The policy enables us to set targets for improvement and measure progress against these targets. We continuously strive to mitigate the any harmful effects of our activities on the environment.

It’s BT Ireland’s intention to be the best provider of communications services and solutions. As a provider of electronic communications that are often used as a substitute for travel or paper based messaging, our business.already contributes to resource conservation and environmental protection.

We have undertaken to help every BT Ireland employee further understand and value their environment. Through the regular communication of our environmental objectives and actions plans to achieve these objectives, we encourage employees to implement our environmental policy in their day-to-day work and praise them for doing so.

The Chief Executive Officer of BT Ireland has ultimate responsibility for the company's environmental policy and performance, which is managed by a steering group of senior managers from each of the major functional areas. Across the BT Group, BT’s Corporate Social Responsibility Steering Group (CSRSG) oversees the implementation of all social and environmental programmes. BT's Social & Environment Report and other publications are available at our Corporate Social Responsibility website: http://www.bt.com/betterworld

Our Commitment

BT Ireland is committed to prevention of pollution and minimising the impact of its operations on the environment by means of a programme of continuous improvement. In particular BT Ireland will:

• Meet all relevant legislative and other requirements, and where appropriate exceed or supplement these by setting our own exacting standards
• Seek to reduce consumption of materials in our operations, reuse rather than dispose whenever possible, and promote recycling and the use of recycled materials,
• Design energy efficiency into new services, buildings and equipment and manage energy wisely in all operations,
• Reduce wherever practicable the level of harmful emissions,
• Sell products that are safe to use, make efficient use of resources, and which can be reused, recycled or disposed of safely,
• Work in partnership with our suppliers to minimise the impact of their operations on the environment through a quality purchasing policy
• Seek to minimise the visual, noise and other impacts on the local environment when sitting our buildings, structures and equipment,
• Work with external groups and organisations to promote the concepts and practices of environmental protection
• Introduce environmental issues through BT Ireland training programmes and encourage the implementation by all BT Ireland people of sound environmental practices.

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