BT has today released its latest financial results to 30th June 2011 (Q2) and revealed that their retail broadband ISP subscriber based had increased by +141,000 (net additions) between Q1 and Q2-2011 to reach a total of 5,832,000 (this represents a 37% share of the total UK DSL and LLU market of 16.0m). The figures are down on previous quarters, with BT originally adding +188k during Q4-2010 and +162,000 in Q1-2011.

The big news is that BT's new generation of superfast 'up to' 40Mbps FTTC broadband services are now available to 5 Million UK homes and businesses (premises). BT also added +71,000 customers to its related BT-Infinity product, around 50% more than in Q1-2011. BT's retail customer base currently stands at over 200,000 superfast broadband subscribers (up from 144,000 in Q1-2011).


Elsewhere the BT Vision IPTV service (broadband TV) had +23,000 net additions in the quarter (down from +40k in Q4-2010 and +30k in Q1-2011) and their customer base currently stands at 598,000. This might appear to be a slowdown but in fairness the uptake of BTVision has been like a yo-yo for the best part of the last two years.

BT Financial Summary (Q2-2011)
• Revenue of £4,764m (-5%)
• EBITDA of £1,436m (-3%)
• Profit before tax of £533m
• Earnings per share of 5.2p
• Free cash flow of £308m
• Net debt (year) of £8.585bn

Separately the total number of Wi-Fi Hotspots (BTOpenzone) grew by more than 200,000 in the quarter, bringing the total to over 3 Million (includes BT's shared/free consumer FON locations). Finally BT's Wholesale division continued to grow its share of the broadband market by adding +279,000 new lines and reaching a total of 8,391,000.