British Telecom chalks up new broadband milestone

British Telecom announced it has passed the three million wholesale broadband customer mark.  The latest million ADSL connections have come in a mere six months, and BT is currently adding an average 6,000 customers a day, seven days a week.

More than 91 per cent of UK homes and businesses are now connected to broadband-enabled exchanges and that figure will reach 99.6 per cent by next summer, putting the UK ahead of any other G7 country in terms of DSL availability.

The three million connections are shared between more than 150 service providers with BT's own retail arm having approximately 41 per cent of total DSL customers as at the end of June.  There are also an estimated 1.7 million cable broadband customers in the UK.