Sky Broadband, the UK’s fastest growing broadband provider, added a further 260,000 subscribers during the quarter to reach 1.2 million customers, with around two-thirds of on-net customers choosing a paid-for product. At the end of the quarter the Group also had an additional 29,000 business and professional broadband customers registered to its UK Online branded service.

Sky Talk had a record quarter of growth with net additions of 236,000, an increase of 54% on the previous quarter’s additions, with 97% of the closing telephony base taking either the Freetime or Unlimited packages.