BT subscriber base exceeds 4.7 million

BT Group has released its latest quarterly results up to the end of last year, which reveals that the broadband market leader has again managed to strengthen its position at the head of the pack by adding a total of 4.7 million customers to it’s combined base of BT Broadband and PlusNet subscribers. This represents over a third of the total UK broadband market – 34 per cent.

BT’s Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots have also taken off, with now more than 50,000 access points available worldwide. Part of the official statement reads thus:

“[BT] had 13.6m wholesale broadband connections (DSL and LLU) at 31 December 2008, including 5.5m LLU lines. There were 296,000 net additional broadband connections in the quarter. Our [BT Broadband] share of those net additions was 28%. [BT] broadband revenue grew by 9% with net additions of 83,000 in the quarter.

In the maturing broadband market, we remain the UK’s number one retail broadband provider with a customer base of 4.7m and a retail market share of the DSL and LLU installed base of 34 per cent at 31 December 2008.

Further UK hotspots have been added, and new agreements signed with international operators Swisscom Hospitality Services and SFR in France. BT Openzone is now also available at more than 50,000 worldwide locations through roaming partners.

BT FON membership continued to climb and members now total 163,000, up 9% on the 7 previous quarter. BT customers can now go online at over 120,000 locations in the UK and Ireland with extensive coverage across 12 major city centres.”

That said, BT’s pre-tax profits also signify a pretty big slump – an 81 per cent fall down from the Q4 2007 results published last year.

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