60,000 BT Vision customers have YouView box
BT Group’s digital TV service now boasts 60,000 customers with a YouView box, according to company’s recently released 3rd quarter results. BT Vison managed to sign up 21,000 new subscribers during this three month period, which ended in December, bringing the total number to 770,000.
On top of that, 122,000 retail broadband customers were added, representing 44% of the DSL and fibre broadband market net additions. BT Wi-fi minutes trebled year on year for the second quarter running and reached 3.9bn minutes, with the number of hotspots increasing by around 40% to 4.8m.
Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT Group, said “Our fibre plans are helping to make the UK a broadband leader in Europe. More than 13 million premises can access our fibre broadband and we are passing around 100,000 additional premises every week.
“Take-up is growing strongly with around 1.25 million homes and businesses now enjoying the benefits of faster speeds. This gives us an excellent platform for our push into TV and Sport later this year. Our pre-season training is going well. We have secured attractive new content and world class production facilities at the Olympic Park and are building a strong team.”
It wasn’t all great news though – BT’s retail division posted revenues of £1.8 billion for the quarter, down 3%.