BT announces record quarter for broadband

BT today announced that the quarter ending September 30 2004 had been the
best ever quarter for wholesale broadband connections. The company said that
more than 600,000 connections were made in the quarter taking BT Wholesale's
end user base to 3,294,000. The news came in the week that saw the UK
overtake Germany in terms of broadband users per 100 people in the
population.

Commenting on the figures, BT Wholesale CEO Paul Reynolds said:

"These are fantastic figures for BT, for the hundreds of service providers
we support and for Broadband Britain. The UK market is really taking off and
we have just overtaken Germany in terms of broadband take up. The UK already
leads the G7 in terms of ADSL availability thanks to BT's investment and so
it is hugely encouraging to see us also climb the league tables for
broadband adoption.

"The huge surge in connections was largely due to BT Wholesale's innovation
in stretching the limits of ADSL so that homes beyond 6kms from an exchange
can now access broadband. This breakthrough led to a dramatic increase in
orders as we were suddenly able to satisfy the pent-up demand that existed
in many areas. It was also the case that many more communities had access to
broadband in the
quarter thanks to the continuing roll out of broadband by BT".

BT also confirmed that BT Retail's share of the net additions for the
quarter had improved from 29 per cent to 30 per cent taking its installed
base to 1,283,000 customers.

Regards
Sunil

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:31:48 -0000, "Sunil Sood"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>The UK already leads the G7 in terms of ADSL availability

Cheers for this Sunil.

It's all very well BT mentioning the high availability of ADSL (which
is certainly a good thing) but ADSL is only one type of broadband.
What no-one seems to mention anywhere is how the UK compares on:

1. Non-ADSL broadband (satellite, wireless, cable, mains cables,
fibre optic etc). I suspect less well - so it doesn't really tell us
a lot.

2. The speed of the ADSL connections available.

3. The price of comparable internet connections (i.e. same speed and
limitations etc) relative to other G7 countries.

Do you know if there are any sites that delve into the murky world of
the above? :-)

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:32:40 +0000, Simon Pleasants
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Do you know if there are any sites that delve into the murky world of
>the above? :-)

OFCOM's review covers such things. You can hardly expect BT Wholesale
to make press releases about competitor's products :-)

Phil
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On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:52:20 +0000, Phil Thompson
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:32:40 +0000, Simon Pleasants
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Do you know if there are any sites that delve into the murky world of
>>the above? :-)
>
>OFCOM's review covers such things. You can hardly expect BT Wholesale
>to make press releases about competitor's products :-)

Certainly not :-)

I know the strengths and weaknesses of the products we produce. We
joke about the weaknesses in the office all the time but curiously
forget to mention them when customers are on the phone.

I'll have a look at OFCOM....

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:46:07 +0000, Simon Pleasants
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'll have a look at OFCOM....

summary
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/ind...cm/qu_10_2004/

report
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/jump.asp...qu_10_2004.pdf

Phil