{"id":1350,"date":"2012-07-26T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T08:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2012-07-26T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T08:37:30","slug":"sky-broadband-uk-breaks-the-4-million-isp-subscribers-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/sky-broadband-uk-breaks-the-4-million-isp-subscribers-milestone.html","title":{"rendered":"Sky Broadband UK Breaks the 4 Million ISP Subscribers Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BSkyB (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a>) has today released its latest results to 30th June 2012 (Q2), which saw it add +138,000 new home broadband customers in the quarter (down from +212k in Q1) and reach the milestone of <strong>4,001,000<\/strong> internet access customers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sky are also still working to expand the coverage of their unbundled (LLU) broadband network to reach <strong>88% of the UK by June 2013<\/strong> (this currently stands at 83% via 1,965 telephone exchanges). Unfortunately Sky didn&#8217;t specify how many of their customers had chosen to take their new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/skyfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Fibre<\/a> superfast broadband service, which would have provided for an interesting insight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Sky\u2019s CEO, Jeremy Darroch, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We have delivered record financial results after another year of strong operational growth. Our consistent approach of investing where it matters most to customers and improving efficiency behind the scenes is working extremely well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In what remains a tough economic environment, customers are choosing Sky over other providers. We\u2019ve continued to add new households and existing customers are remaining loyal and taking more products from us. More than 9 million homes are now choosing to watch their TV through Sky+, we\u2019re helping more customers to save money in home communications and innovative services like Sky Go are adding even more value to their subscription<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsewhere <strong>Sky&#8217;s Line Rental<\/strong> service grew by +187,000 to reach 3,563,000 and their <strong>Telephony<\/strong> (voice) products grew by +141,000 to hit a total of 3,768,000. 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