{"id":2580,"date":"2013-02-01T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T09:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2013-02-01T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T10:07:12","slug":"uk-isp-bt-top-6-56-million-broadband-subscribers-as-fibre-access-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/uk-isp-bt-top-6-56-million-broadband-subscribers-as-fibre-access-grows.html","title":{"rendered":"UK ISP BT Tops 6.56 Million Broadband Subscribers as Fibre Access Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National UK telecoms operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> has today released its latest Q4-2012 financial results, which revealed that their retail broadband ISP subscriber base grew by +122k (up from +88k in Q3-2012) to total <strong>6,569,000 customers<\/strong> (more than 1m of which are fibre optic based <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/btinfinityuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BTInfinity<\/a><\/strong> superfast broadband subscribers).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> Retail managed to increase its superfast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> (Infinity) customers by <strong>+200,000 in the quarter<\/strong>, which represents another improvement from the +160,000 added during Q3-2012. The service now <strong>passes more than 13 million premises<\/strong> and, when other BTOpenreach based FTTx using ISPs are included, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P subscribers rise to 1.25 million (+250,000 net adds in Q4).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ian Livingston, BTs CEO, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Our fibre plans are helping to make the UK a broadband leader in Europe. More than 13 million premises can access our fibre broadband and we are passing around 100,000 additional premises every week. Take-up is growing strongly with around 1.25 million homes and businesses now enjoying the benefits of faster speeds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This gives us an excellent platform for our push into TV and Sport later this year. Our pre-season training is going well. We have secured attractive new content and world class production facilities at the Olympic Park and are building a strong team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our engineers have worked tirelessly following some of the wettest weather on record. Not only did they complete a record number of field visits in the quarter, they also connected a further 281,000 homes and businesses to broadband and helped us grow the number of landlines<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsewhere the broadband based <strong>BTVision<\/strong> (IPTV) service grew to 770,000 subscribers, which represents\u00a0yet another quarter of flat growth from the +21k added in Q2, Q3 and now Q4 (note: 60,000 customers use their new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a> box). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> probably would have been hoping for more given last year\u2019s huge investment in new TV and sport content.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that BTWi-fi (Hotspots) minutes trebled year on year for the second quarter running and reached 3.9bn minutes, with the number of hotspots increasing by around 40% to 4.8 million. In addition, <strong>BTWholesale\u2019s<\/strong> share of broadband lines in the UK stood at <strong>8,653,000<\/strong>, which is up by an impressive +62,000 (a sharp rise from the +14k added in Q3) thanks to the demand for their superfast broadband products.<\/p>\n<p>Finally BT Retail&#8217;s <strong>consumer revenue<\/strong> decreased by 3% with lower calls and lines revenue partially being offset by growth in broadband and an &#8220;<em>increasing contribution from fibre<\/em>&#8220;. 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