Communications provider BT Retail UK has released its latest financial results to 30th June 2010, revealing that its broadband ISP subscriber base had increased by +96,000 from 5,131,000 in Q1-2010 to 5,227,000 in Q2. This is a slowdown on Q1 when +123,000 were added.

Elsewhere BT's new 40Mbps FTTC fibre optic broadband services, which began rolling out in January, can now reach more than 1.5m UK premises. It's understood that 100,000 new premises are being covered each week.

Combined with its 100Mbps FTTP product, BT ultimately aims to reach 66% of UK premises by 2015 and at a cost of £2.5bn. The operators BT Retail (ISP) division also claims that its related FTTC BT Infinity packages have "seen order levels accelerate" but failed to include any figures (we will ask for the data).


Elsewhere consumer ARPU increased to £314, up £5 over the previous quarter, principally due to increasing take up of broadband across their customer base; BT’s retail market share was 40%.

UPDATE 8:45am

BT have refused to give us their BT Infinity figures but did say that the BT Vision IPTV service had 481k (up 14k in the three months from April to June).