Posted: 10th Nov, 2005 By: MarkJ
BT has released its latest financial results to 30th September 2005, which highlighted a total wholesale broadband (ADSL) subscriber base of 6.2million (up 89% over last year).
Unsurprisingly while broadband may be buoying up BT, its own (retail) fixed line and dialup Internet services have declined:
Revenue from traditional services was 9 per cent lower than last year (8 per cent excluding the impact of reductions to mobile termination rates). The reduction includes the effects of continued high levels of migration to new wave services such as broadband, which is reflected in a fall of over 40 per cent in dial up internet minutes and a reduction in ISDN lines. In addition, there has been an estimated 3 per cent decline in the overall fixed to fixed calls market and a reduction in market share from competitive pressure.
BT Retails own provider currently has 2,111,000 broadband subscribers. Sadly BT is too afraid to list its dialup statistics, so we've no idea of the overall subscriber total.