{"id":2748,"date":"2013-02-28T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:06:05","slug":"isp-o2-uk-sees-home-broadband-subscribers-fall-to-560100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/isp-o2-uk-sees-home-broadband-subscribers-fall-to-560100.html","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE ISP O2 UK Sees Home Broadband Subscribers Fall to 560100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator and ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> UK (BE Broadband) has suffered another painful quarter after\u00a0their latest results for Q4-2012 showed that\u00a0its fixed line home broadband subscriber base had fallen by -19,400 in the quarter to reach a new total of 560,100 customers. Meanwhile\u00a0rumours of a <strong>sale to BSkyB<\/strong> continue to persist.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The recent fall follows a generally frustrating performance for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>&#8217;s home broadband platform\u00a0in 2012, which was fuelled by continued concern over price, poor network performance (routing problems) and the on-going lack of superfast broadband. Recent concern about network congestion (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/aaisp-uk-slaps-fluidata-and-o2-wholesale-for-backhaul-network-congestion.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), GoldenEye&#8217;s piracy letters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/o2-uk-and-be-broadband-users-receive-goldeneye-piracy-letters.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and efforts to disconnect heavy users\u00a0also haven&#8217;t helped (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/isp-be-broadband-face-unlimited-questions-after-user-cut-off-for-overuse.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>History of O2s Fixed Line Broadband Decline<\/strong><br \/>\nDecember 2010 \u2013 671,600 (largest peak)<br \/>\nMarch 2011 \u2013 669,200<br \/>\nJune 2011 \u2013 652,900<br \/>\nSeptember 2011 \u2013 625,300<br \/>\nDecember 2011 \u2013 620,300 (-5,000)<br \/>\nMarch 2012 \u2013 617,800 (-2,500)<br \/>\nJune 2012 \u2013 602,000 (-15,800)<br \/>\nSeptember 2012 \u2013 579,500 (-22,500)<br \/>\nDecember 2012 &#8211; 560,100 (-19,400)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the bad news often overshadows the providers other merits, such as the fact that it usually has proportionally more satisfied customers than most of the other big ISPs. Similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>\/BE&#8217;s <strong>fixed line phone<\/strong> business once again saw its subscribers increase to 377,400 (up +14,600 in the quarter,\u00a0although this\u00a0is less than the +24k added in Q3-2012).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>O2\u00a0(Telefonica UK) Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Revenue trend has improved quarter by quarter since the fourth quarter of 2011 from -6.8% year-on-year to -3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2012 to total 7,042 million euros in 2012 (-5.0% year-on-year), on the back of solid mobile service revenues, resulting in a sequential improvement ex-regulation year-on-year (+0.5% in the fourth quarter).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>OIBDA totalled 1,601 million euros in 2012, with a sequential improvement in the fourth quarter. CapEx stood at 748 million euros in the year to December 2012 as the Company continued to focus on increasing its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> coverage and capacity, resulting in O2 UK having the least complained about network.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>O2 (BE) now finds itself in a difficult position. On the one hand it needs to invest heavily in their forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> based Mobile Broadband products, while on the other they&#8217;ve been left trailing the rest of the market due to a <strong>lack of superfast broadband<\/strong> services and <strong>no TV solution<\/strong> (not that TV itself is\u00a0a requirement but it has become more important to the big operators).<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that they do plan to make an announcement about their superfast\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> strategy in the summer. The bad news is that instead of leading the pack, much as they did with ADSL2+ some years back, they&#8217;re now already a year behind most of their main rivals and will be even further behind come the summer. The focus is clearly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a number of normally reliable sources have this week continued to fuel <strong>on-going rumours<\/strong>, which first sprang up during January (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/uncertainty-grips-o2-and-be-broadband-uk-users-after-isp-sale-rumours.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), that O2 and BSkyB have allegedly held discussions concerning the future of the operators Home Broadband platform.<\/p>\n<p>The supposed deal, which could complete around summer 2013 (after the migration to the new BE\/O2 converged core network), would involve BSkyB &#8220;<em>managing the existing platform<\/em>&#8220;. As usual neither BSkyB nor O2 were willing to comment. Take with a big pinch of salt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 1:01pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our sources indicate that O2 are planning another advertising campaign to help push their struggling Home Broadband services, which will hit in <strong>April 2013<\/strong>. At this stage we don&#8217;t yet know whether the ISP intends to push a new product or to merely promote its existing service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) has suffered another painful quarter after\u00a0their latest results for Q4-2012 showed that\u00a0its fixed line home broadband subscriber base had fallen by -19,400 in the quarter to reach a new total of 560,100 customers. Meanwhile\u00a0rumours of a sale to BSkyB continue to persist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,32,34],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-be-broadband","tag-o2","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UPDATE ISP O2 UK Sees Home Broadband Subscribers Fall to 560100 - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mobile operator and ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) has suffered another painful quarter after\u00a0their latest results for Q4-2012 showed that\u00a0its fixed line home\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/isp-o2-uk-sees-home-broadband-subscribers-fall-to-560100.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPDATE ISP O2 UK Sees Home Broadband Subscribers Fall to 560100 - 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