In the quarter BT added another 245,000 connections, in addition to the 195,000 connections gained through BT’s recent acquisition of PlusNet, ending the quarter at 3.7 million broadband connections making BT the leading broadband retailer, by market share, in the UK. BT Retail’s share of broadband net additions (DSL and LLU) was 32 per cent in the fourth quarter. In addition more than half of our consumer customers who order broadband choose the higher value packages. BT's share of the installed base increased to 34 per cent as at March 31, 2007.

21st Century Network
During the quarter, BT continued the process of migrating customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in South Wales and achieved further milestones.

The rebuild of BT's core national network is also continuing and we are on track to launch next generation broadband services to many of our customers nationally by Spring 2008.

We also continued the programme to roll out 21CN infrastructure outside the UK, with 21CN nodes established across a number of European markets.

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The company also continued a foundation trial for next generation broadband services based on ADSL2+ during the quarter in Cardiff. The trial is an important step in the delivery of next generation broadband services at up to 24 Mbps to customers across the UK from 2008 as part of the company’s rollout of 21CN.