Morgan Stanley recently estimated that BT's defined benefit pension deficit would likely reach £6bn by next year's triennial valuation.
That's a lot of money even for a business the size of BT. Part of the problem is the locked-in effect of inflation protection. Schemes with RPI indexation written into the rules face bigger deficit...
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