BT Has 3 Million Broadband Subscribers

BT Retail has announced that it has three million broadband customers, with its half yearly results revealing that it secured one in four of all new ADSL customers between July and September 2006.

Sales of the BT Home Hub, which supports BT’s full range of services, have now exceeded 350,000, which the company says has helped to fuel a rise in the use of VoIP services. BT now has a base of more than 650,000 residential customers using VoIP services. In addition, BT said that it now has 32% of the total DSL broadband market

Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT Retail, said: “The broadband market is consolidating and customers are increasingly choosing between basic broadband and a total service that can deliver far more. BT believes that customers deserve broadband that makes available a range of new exciting new services.

“The broadband market of the last few months has been similar to a gold rush with companies falling over themselves to offer so called ‘free’ broadband. It is pleasing then to see that more than three million customers share our vision that broadband is far more than a pipe into the home.”

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