BT has today revealed that more than one million homes and businesses in the South East have connected to its broadband services. The region is the first in the UK, including London, to reach this target:

Just three months ago BT announced that it had hit five million broadband users in the UK and 880,000 were in the South East.

It signals fantastic take-up of the popular product across the region – with an average of 40,000 new connections per month.

The one million customers include:

• 107000 in Berkshire

• 110000 in Buckinghamshire

• 92000 in East Sussex

• 184000 in Hampshire

• 12100 in Isle of Wight

• 180000 in Kent

• 76000 in Oxfordshire

• 142000 in Surrey

• 99000 in West Sussex

By the end of summer BT’s £1.5 billion national investment programme will have finished in the South East when the final exchanges are upgraded, bringing broadband potential to 99.9 per cent of premises.