Posted: 21st May, 2003 By: MarkJ
By the end of last week BT had managed to connect roughly 950,000 broadband ADSL lines. Many now expect the operator to announce having achieved its first million tomorrow, which is when their latest results are to be issued:
Early last year the telco announced price cuts to its wholesale broadband product that, it said, would help it deliver one million DSL broadband connections by summer 2003.
One insider described it as being "too close to call" whether the telco would make it. However, other sources claim the monster telco will fall just short of the target.
Of course, if BT has done enough to say on Thursday that it's reached its magic milestone then it would be a triumph for the monster telco and a major PR coup.Either way, BT does deserve some credit for getting the market this far and unlike a certain cable operator we could mention, its ADSL lines do actually run at broadband speed (based on Oftels updated definition). More @
The Register.