Trading update results for the three months to 30 June 2021

Philip Jansen, Chief Executive, commenting on the results, said

Our operational performance remained strong and our EBITDA grew during the first three months of the year, reflecting improved trading across most of our business and the positive benefits of our plans to modernise BT. Our results were overall in line with our expectations during the quarter, with good performance in the UK offsetting challenging conditions in Global's markets.

We're powering ahead with our network build programmes: Openreach has now built full fibre broadband to more than 5m premises with growing customer demand; EE has set out plans for 5G on demand anywhere in the UK by 2028. We've also reached a partnership agreement with our largest trade union, the CWU¹ , allowing us to keep our modernisation plans on track.

We continue to invest in new strategic growth areas and have also today announced a strengthened strategic partnership with Microsoft that will see us accelerate co-innovation across all areas of our business, including enterprise voice and cyber security, supporting our growth strategy.

With trading conditions expected to see some improvement through the year, we have confirmed our outlook and remain confident that BT is on a path to growth.