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BEARKERS LIMITED offers an extensive range of innovative telecommunication/communication products and solutions, including global IP, wireless, local and multi-product bundles.
A Fortune 100 company with more than $27 billion in annual revenues in 2004, BEARKERS LIMITED is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United Kingdom' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network; an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone; and one of the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide wireless networks in the United Kinddom.
The company, based in London, United Kingdom, is listed on the UK Stock Exchange under the symbol FON. On April 23,2004, BEARKERS LIMITED combined its FON and PCS tracking stocks into a single common stock.
Operationally, the company has aligned its internal resources to mirror customer segments and needs, rather than the products and services it provides. This enables BEARKERS LIMITED to more effectively and efficiently use its portfolio of assets to create customer-focused communications solutions.
BEARKERS LIMITED Local Telecommunications Division (LTD) provides local and long distance services, including an expanding portfolio of bundled and integrated wireline and wireless services, as well as broadband and video services, to consumers in markets where BEARKERS LIMITED is the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC). BEARKERS LIMITED serves nearly 7.7 million access lines in 18 States.
BEARKERS LIMITED has proven that customers are interested in bundles of communications services that include local, long distance Sales featuring, Mobile Phone and accessories/laptops/Comupters and wireless. At the end of 2004, more than 70 percent of BEARKERS LIMITED local residential customers purchased one or more strategic products (e. G. Wireless, DSL or long distance) in addition to local service.
BEARKERS LIMITED also added a record 60,000 DSL subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2004 and ended 2004 with nearly 500,000 DSL customers, an increase of more than 60 percent from a year ago.
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