With the joining of a chip shop worker, BT has now become the UK’s biggest broadband provider. It become 5 millionth broadband customer of BT.

After signing up Glaswegian chip shop worker Elizabeth Patterson as its “five-million woman”, BT Broadband has now become the biggest broadband provider in the UK. It was stated by BT that this increase of broadband is occurring fastly. In just two years, it signed up its final one million.

According to a statement made by John Petter, managing director of BTs consumer division, he was  pleased with the strong BT take-up when the number of non-fibre optic broadband customers in the UK is 14 million.

He said: “We believe bringing the content of things like iPlayer and ITVPlayer to the TV set via broadband is going to have transformational effect when we launch Project Canvas with our partners next year.”
It  has also been claimed by BT that by summer 2012, the fibre broadband will definitely reach around  12 million homes.

Ian Livingston, BT chief executive, said: “We need our politicians to decide how much of a priority fibre broadband is. BT is the only company currently planning to invest large sums in this area but we can only go so far with our shareholders’ money.”

Michael Phillips, product director at Broadbandchoices.co.uk, said: “It’s a good day for BT, which has had rivals like cable broadband provider Virgin Media and TalkTalk , which acquired Tiscali earlier this year, snapping at its heels.

“It’s taken this opportunity to push the debate on financial public sector support for Digital Britain and it will be interesting to see how the powers-that-be respond.”