ass a broad and unfocused ICT agenda rather than just the mechanics of telecoms delivery. BT Movio and BT Fusion both turned out to be a poor use of R and D resources. BT Vision has, however, been a success10 and combined with a return to financial health of the global services business explains BTs profit recovery. An additional 30 000 job losses over the two-year period to February 2011 have helped as well. Thursday 3 February 2011 18.04 GMT The group's global services division was forced to make huge write downs following cost overruns two years ago which pushed BT into the red during 2008/9. However in the three months to end-December, the offshoot produced underlying profits of £141m and cut costs by 8% over the last 12 months. 10 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/03/bt-telecommunications-profits-rise. Cable Network and Fibre Network Technologies and Topologies BT added another 188,000 broadband customers in the third quarter bringing the tally to 5.5m, consolidating its position as Britain's biggest broadband operator, comfortably ahead of arch-rivals Virgin and Sky. Analysts say O2 and Orange may have lost market share. In the third quarter to December 31, group pre-tax profit rose 30% to £531m, while free cash flow increased by 70% Ian Livingston, chief executive said: "We have had a great few months with our highest share of broadband additions for eight years." BT's broadband television service BT Vision added 40,000 customers in the quarter, compared to 24,000 additions in the previous three months. This brings the total to 545,000. BT reduced its pension deficit from £7.9bn at 31 March 2010 to £3.7bn at December 31 2010, thanks in part to a soaring stock market. Livingston said BT is making good progress in the introduction of its superfast broadband network; the company is spending more than £2bn to build a high-speed network to reach 15m homes by 2015. In June 2011 BT Vision started providing access to BBC iPlayer as an IPTV service providing access to 400 hours of BBC TV and 1000 hours of