Ofcom has released its latest quarterly (Q2 2009) Telecommunications Market Data Tables (Download .PDF), which offers a breakdown of total small business and residential broadband connections. At the end of Q2 2009 there were 17,739,000 residential and small business UK broadband connections, 1.1 million (6.9%) more than a year ago.

Total residential and small business broadband connections

BT Retail DSL (ADSL) - 4,717,000
Other DSL (exc. LLU) - 3,286,000
Virgin Media (Cable) - 3,742,000
Other inc. (LLU DSL) - 5,993,000

Overall 182,000 new connections were added between Q1 and Q2 of this year (significantly down from +281,000 in Q1), with BT Retail's (BT's own ISP services) market share increasing ever so slightly from 26.4% to 26.6% respectively over the same period.

Meanwhile BT Wholesale based ADSL / DSL broadband ISPs (Other DSL) continued to decline, shedding 114,000 connections to rival unbundled ( LLU ) and Cable Modem services. As usual the cheaper unbundled broadband services also picked up the balk of new connections.

Elsewhere the total number of fixed telephone lines fell by 339,000 during the quarter, with BT losing over 725,000 analogue lines and ISDN channels. The total number of BT lines fell to below 20 million during the quarter.