Posted: 05th Feb, 2007 By: MarkJ
The latest fourth quarterly results from France Telecom indicate that its UK ISP wing -
Orange (formerly Wanadoo), has managed to rack up 1,063,000 broadband ADSL subscribers:
The number of consumer ADSL broadband accesses totaled 9.656 million in Europe at December 31, 2006, compared with 7.400 million at December 31, 2005, an year-on-year increase of 30.5% (+2.256 million new ADSL accesses). In France, there were 5.920 million consumer ADSL broadband accesses at year-end 2006, representing a year-on-year increase of 32.8% (+1.463 million additional ADSL accesses).
For reference purposes,
Orange UK had roughly 906,000 at the end of the fourth quarter last year. This represents a 12 month growth of 157,000.