France Telecom, Orange UK's parent company, has issued its latest preliminary half-year results to 30th June 2008, which illuminated the UK groups continued land-line broadband ADSL decline to 1.063m customers.

This compares with 1,107,000 in the previous quarter, which marks the operator’s third consecutive quarterly decrease and is a loss of 44,000 customers during the three month period:


Thankfully all is not lost and the number of UK Mobile Broadband customers has risen to 2.452m, which compares with 2m in the previous quarter. This is a surprising result given the lead that some of their rivals have, especially in price. Full Results.