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UK ISP BT Tops 9.2 Mill Broadband Users and BDUK Sees Clawback Boost

The latest quarterly (Q3 2016 calendar) results have been published by BT today, which reveal that their retail broadband base now tops 9,193,000 customers (up by +76K, unchanged from Q2) and 4,473,000 of those take their ‘Infinity‘ (FTTC/P) superfast broadband (up by +216K vs +181K in Q2).

As usual it’s been another busy quarter for the BT Group, which seems to have expended most of its energy on regulatory battles with Ofcom and rival ISPs. Elsewhere they unveiled a massive pilot of their 300Mbps capable G.fast broadband service with 140,000 UK premises and confirmed their intention to begin the roll-out of IPv6.

On top of that Openreach’s engineering teams have continued the roll-out of “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services across the United Kingdom, which can now reach around 26 million premises (mostly via the slower ‘up to’ 40-80Mbps FTTC technology) and that equates to about 92% coverage. Otherwise BT’s financial situation looks to have held up well, albeit with a few weaker areas.