The CEO of BT Vision, Dan Marks, has admitted to the Telegraph that take-up of its broadband TV (IPTV) service has not been as fast as it would have liked but vows "to do better for our customers". He'll need to after BT Retails head, Gavin Patterson, recently set a new target of 3 million customers by 2010 (currently 350,000):


It's not immediately clear from the article just how BT Vision plans to reach 3m in the current climate, which has seen many of its IPTV rivals suffer from even slower uptake, with Orange UK most recently backing out completely.. again.

However BT has promised not to scale back its investment in the service and points out that BSkyB suffered an almost identical level of slow uptake before being accepted.

BT Vision also expects to benefit from BT's £1.5bn fibre optic plans, which will bring faster broadband services to millions of UK homes. IPTV customers can expect to see more choices as a result of the extra capacity and speed.