Has that situation now changed given the recent announcement of job cuts?
What we’ve announced in the UK is job reduction, not job cuts. The way we are doing it is we’re making sure the company is in the right size. We are a company using a lot of contractors, so the first thing we are doing is reducing the number of contractors. We’re also in a market where there is high staff turnover, so it’s a question of not replacing the leavers. The CEO has announced that in order to meet the 10,000 reduction figure, we are going to stop working with about 6000 contractors and are not going to replace 4000 leavers globally. The economic downturn gives us a special focus on resources, but if you look at Dubai in May there were less than 50 people employed here and we have more than 80 people today, so we are making sure that we’ve the right resources in the right places. If you count the number of circuits – the number of connections customers have to the BT network which can be used for video, application sharing and so on – in the Middle East today, we have around 20
