British Telecom (NYSE:BT, news, filings) pre-announced today that they will take a £340M charge ($472M) in their Global Services (BTGS) division. Often such write-offs are for things like goodwill, and while they aren’t great they are usually an acknowledgment of something the market already knows. That does not appear to be the case here. Rather, BTGS had to re-evaluate large contracts to “take into account a more cautious view of the recognition of cost efficiencies and other changes in assumptions and estimates, particularly in light of the current economic outlook.”
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