The
BT Group has today released its latest financial results to 31st March 2011 (Q1), which reveal that the operator plans to
double the speed of its superfast FTTC broadband service to 80Mbps in 2012 and should reach
100Mbps in the future. Meanwhile BT's Retail ISP base has grown by +162,000 net additions (down from +188k in Q4-2010) to reach a total of
5,691,000 broadband subscribers.
As for
BT Retail's customer statistics for its newest
FTTC (
BT Infinity) 'up to' 40Mbps broadband service.. Firstly, to recap,
BT Retail had 38,000 Infinity customers 6 months ago and was adding 4,000 new subscribers each week. It now has
144,000 Infinity subscribers and is adding 5,000 per week.
However,
BT does reveal that it's so far
spent £0.6bn of its £2.5bn fibre rollout budget until 2015. At present its
FTTC service is passing
80,000 new premises every week and
BT expects to
reach 5 Million Homes sometime within the next few weeks, rising to 10 Million by 2012 as originally planned (40% of the country). This is in keeping with BT's timetable of reaching 66% or more of the UK with its
FTTC and
FTTP broadband services by 2015.
