National UK telecoms operator BT has today released its latest financial results to 30th September 2011 (Q3), which saw its retail broadband ISP subscriber base top 5,998,000 customers (it's since gone over 6 Million). This represents an impressive quarterly growth of +166,000 net additions, compared with +141,000 in Q2.

Elsewhere BT's new 'up to' 40Mbps (rising to 80Mbps in 2012) superfast broadband ( FTTC ) service is now available to 6 Million UK homes and businesses (up from 5 Million in Q2). BT added a further +88,000 to its related BT-Infinity product in the quarter (up from +71,000 in Q2), which takes the total to over 300,000 (double what it was six months ago).


Separately the BT Vision IPTV service (broadband TV) managed to boost its growth by adding +44,000 new subscribers in the quarter for a total of 639,000, which is significantly up from just +23,000 added in Q2.

BT Financial Summary (Q3-2011)
• Revenue of £4,894m (2%)
• EBITDA of £1,495m (3%)
• Profit before tax of £552m
• Earnings per share of 6.4p
• Free cash flow of £671m
• Net debt (year) of £8.317bn

BT's Wholesale division reports that it upgraded 145 telephone exchanges in the quarter to support its Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) service ( e.g. ADSL2+), which makes for a total of 1,450 WBC exchanges (covering 70% of UK premises).

BT Wholesale is now home to 8,510,000 fixed broadband lines, while BT has also fully unbundled (MPF) 4,885,000 telephone lines and 2,840,000 shared (SMPF) lines. Unbundled ( LLU ) lines are typically used by ISPs, such as O2 , Sky Broadband and TalkTalk etc., to offer cheaper and more flexible broadband and phone services.