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UK ISP BT Tops 9 Million Broadband Users, 4.1M on Superfast Fibre FTTC

BT has released its latest Q1 2016 results, which reveals that their retail division has a total of 9,041,000 broadband subscribers (up by +1.045 million in Q1 vs +130K in Q4 2015) and 4.076m of those are taking their FTTC/P based BTInfinity superfast broadband service (up by +214k vs +250K at the end of 2015).

The main events for BT Group during the first quarter were the completion of their £12.5bn merger with EE and the outcome of Ofcom’s Strategic Review, which has tentatively proposed NOT to split BT from control of their Openreach network access division (provided they reach a voluntary agreement). But Ofcom has still proposed significantly more separation between the two, plus they’re also working to make BT’s national UK network of fibre optic lines and cable ducts more accessible for rivals; all of this is the subject of an on-going and heated discussion.