BT Retail Tops 4 Million Broadband Subscribers
Posted: 31st Aug, 2007 By: MarkJ
BT Retail's UK ISP division has today become the UK's first broadband provider to pass the four million customer mark, which is quite a rise over the 172,000 they had all the way back in June 2002:
The acceleration to four million has taken just over five years meaning a new customer has been added on average every 40 seconds over this period. This also equates to more than 2,000 new customers each day during that period. The last million customers have been added in ten months.
This dramatic rise in connections has led to the UK overtaking most of its main competitors in terms of broadband penetration. Only Canada is ahead of the UK in the G8 meaning the UK is ahead of Japan, France, Germany and the US. There are more than 15 million connections in the UK with approximately 11.5m of those running over the BT network. The rest are carried via the UKs cable network.
BT Retail chief executive Ian Livingston said: Four million customers is a great achievement in such a short time. Broadband has proved to be one of the most popular new services ever seen. It is already delivering next generation television, inclusive free phone calls in High Definition sound and great value mobile calls. Broadband can provide so many more services than just internet surfing and it has become central to many peoples lives and businesses.
This dramatic rise in connections has led to the UK overtaking most of its main competitors in terms of broadband penetration. Only Canada is ahead of the UK in the G8 meaning the UK is ahead of Japan, France, Germany and the US. There are more than 15 million connections in the UK with approximately 11.5m of those running over the BT network. The rest are carried via the UKs cable network.
BT Retail chief executive Ian Livingston said: Four million customers is a great achievement in such a short time. Broadband has proved to be one of the most popular new services ever seen. It is already delivering next generation television, inclusive free phone calls in High Definition sound and great value mobile calls. Broadband can provide so many more services than just internet surfing and it has become central to many peoples lives and businesses.
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