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Sky broadband customer base reached 2.4 million

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With an addition of 101,000 customers, the total broadband customer base of Sky Broadband has reached 2.4 million over the last quarter.
Around a quarter of Sky customers now opts for one of its broadband packages and also there is an increase in the number of users choosing one of Sky’s triple play bundles with home phone, broadband and TV by 18%. All of the planned local exchanges are also unbundled by Sky broadband. Now it has around 500,000 customers which are linked to its local loop unbundled (LLU) network, permitting it to grant reasonably priced broadband to more owners.
Jeremy Darroch, chief executive, commented: “It has been another good quarter in what remains a tough environment, with more customers joining Sky and strong demand across our entire product range.”
It has also been declared by Sky that it would soon start providing HD set-top boxes as standard. Moreover, it is also planning to launch the UK’s first dedicated 3D channel in spring.
Michael Phillips, Broadbandchoices.co.uk product director, said: “Sky’s broadband packages continue to offer great value for money, especially when taken with Sky Talk, which offers a £5 discount on monthly broadband costs, even giving customers on the Broadband Base package ‘free broadband’.
“Sky’s six months free broadband offer is still also running, which gives customers free access to its Sky Unlimited 20Mb broadband package for six months.
He further warned “However, customers on either its Broadband Base or Broadband Everyday packages do need to make sure that they don’t exceed their download allowance or they could be charged extra”.

Superfast fibre business broadband packages introduced by BT

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BT Broadband is now offering a superfast 40Mb broadband which the users can avail by paying just £30 a month.

The users can avail this new package which is known as Total Broadband Fibre by paying only £30 per month. This package will facilitate the business broadband users a lot as it comes equipped with 40Mb downloads and up to 10Mb uploads. According to BT, the users can run a number of VoIP, high-definition video conferencing and other business-grade applications with the help of this service. In addition to this, they can also download web-pages, e-mails as well as FTP files at the same time.
BT Business managing director, Nigel Stagg, stated: “28% of businesses are already using faster broadband to expand their website capabilities, and another 25% are using it to drive more processes online and employ more bandwidth-hungry technology according to our research last year.
“BT Business Total Broadband Fibre gives businesses capacity and reliability, with the reassurance of a priority service, to enjoy the best possible online experience. We are committed to rolling out higher speeds and additional coverage across the UK during 2010.”
BT will introduce two packages. These are Business Total Broadband Fibre and Business Total Broadband Fibre Plus. Both these packages will come adorned with a 24-month contract. A 12-month option is also there. The users have to pay an extra £5 a month. The users can enjoy up to 40Mb downloads and 2Mb uploads with the Business Total Broadband Fibre. On the other hand, the Fibre Plus comes with up to 10Mb uploads. A number of added extras are also offered on both these tariffs which include wifi minutes and webspace. The users need to pay £75 connection fee.
BT has also declared to launch its residential fibre packages last week. The users can avail at just £19.99 a month.
By the end of February, an access to BT’s next generation fibre services will be provided to around 500,000 homes as well as businesses from 31 enabled exchanges while the another 2.5 million homes and businesses can access 40Mb broadband by late summer. By the end of 2010, there will be an increase in this number. It will reach four million.
BT again repeated its promise of providing superfast Broadband to 40% of the UK – or some 10 million homes as well as businesses – by 2012.
Michael Phillips, Broadbandchoices.co.uk product director, said: “Starting at just £30 a month, BT’s business fibre broadband packages are affordable even for small businesses.”

BT becomes UK’s top broadband provider

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The broadband provider has secured a whopping 5 million customers in the country, which is way beyond the customer base of its counterparts. A fibre optic network for 10 million UK homes will also be laid by the year 2012 British Telecom, the desirable internet provider in UK has been touted as the number one broadband provider in the country with a whopping five million customers. The provider is the first amongst its emulators to secure such huge customer base. The internet service provider has celebrated its achievement by offering an entrapping  surprise to its five millionth customer. Elizabeth Patterson of East Kilbride, Glasgow was proffered a luxury trip by BT to Vancouver to watch the Winter Olympics that also includes the closing ceremony. British Telecom has now made its service available at the telephone exchanges that serve 99 percent of the total UK population. The provider is now reckoning to invest £1.5 billion to arrange a  fibre optic network for 10 million UK homes by the year 2012. John Petter, BT consumer division managing director said: “We are thrilled to have passed the five million mark and it’s now full speed ahead for six million. “Broadband has the ability to transform people’s lives and the fact that we are still showing strong take-up when there are more than 14million ADSL broadband customers in the UK is testament to the unique benefits of being connected. “The UK’s intensely competitive market for broadband has meant that UK customers have enjoyed superb innovation and low prices. There is more to come, as we believe bringing the content of things like iPlayer and ITV Player to the TV set via broadband is going to have a transformational effect when we launch Project Canvas with our partners next year.”

BT committed to faster broadband despite falling profits

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BT still continued to be the UK’s fastest broadband service, despite of the falling profits of 45% in the first-half of the financial year.

Telecoms giant BT will keep on investing in high-speed broadband while it will also work for bringing down costs along with its redundancy programme. It has been stated by BT that around 15,000 jobs would be cut this year. Apart from this, it is also planning to cost-cut total £1.5bilion this financial year as stated by the company in the its half-year results today.

Ian Livingston, BT’s chief executive, said: “We are investing in the future of the business with an enhanced and accelerated programme of fibre deployment and faster broadband speeds, all within our capital expenditure plans.”

BT is now focusing to upgrade its network to the latest ADSL2+ technology supporting 20Mb broadband. By spring 2011, around 75% of UK homes and businesses will be able to access this. The company is also planning to roll out the next-generation superfast fibre broadband in few parts of the UK.

Michael Phillips, product director at Broadbandchoices.co.uk, said: “Today’s results are better than many analysts expected. The investment BT is putting into rolling out is 20Mb broadband service is already reaping benefits for many consumers who are customers or BT and other telecoms providers who are using the upgraded network.

BT to increase the speed of fibre optic broadband rollout to twice

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It appears as if BT is ready to increase the speed of its next generation fibreoptic broadband launch, bringing up to 100Mbps broadband within the reach of about a million homes by next year.

In a statement after the broadband market leader’s financial report for the last three months of 2008 was published, CEO Ian Livingstone said: “We will examine doubling the pace of the rollout of super fast broadband next year within existing capital expenditure plans, bringing fibre based services within the reach of more than a million homes and businesses and securing the jobs of a thousand BT people.”

By chance, BT were forced to act quick after it was revealed that Virgin media has started providing a 200Mbps service, and has shown plans to start a 150Mbps service to users in 2010.

“If BT were to meet the time frame they have suggested – of finishing by 2012 – I would see us as having much, much faster upstream speed, running at a minimum of 100Mbps downstream and possibly more,” said Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett in March.

In the previous month, BT said it would be using fibre optic connections in a few of exchanges in suburban London and Cardiff for trial basis this summer before more productions started.

The Cheapest Home Broadband in UK initiated by BT

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With an aim to attain the top spot, BT has introduced a package which would cost the least among all of the home broadband deals. Through the new initiative, up to 8 MB of wireless broadband can be received at home and also up to 1 GB of free monthly usage is allowed for a total cost of only £308.08 paid for a total period of eighteen months, which would cost £528.48 for a deal with Orange or £435.00 with Virgin. As a rough estimate, the 1 GB can allow someone to send 300 e-mails, browse over the web for nearly 400 minutes, download approximately 144 songs. With so much offered, the price is lower than others and so it has been estimated that the BT will be able to attract maximum users to itself, which will be ultimately resulting in the maximum profit for the home broadband provider.

The Managing Director of BT’s consumer division, John Petter called the deal to be very good and the most complete mobile and home broadband. He added that the broadband has proved to be better as it can be used anywhere and at anytime.

With the BT costumers getting the ability to get online on the go by simply attaching the USB modem into their laptop, John called it to be the best way to get online anywhere on the train, or in the park for booking tickets, check emails, check match results or whatever we used to go online for. The home broadband provider will offer a speed of 7.2 Mbps when the user is out of his home. It is also supported over the 3G network.

BT Total Broadband customers can now get both mobile and home broadband in UK with a membership of BT FON network of around 40,0000 FON hotspots throughout the world. The consumers can also avail the top benefits of hotspots at more than 650 Starbucks coffeehouses in the UK and Ireland.

With the connection manager software available in the BT home broadband, the users can even select the cheapest and fastest network available in the place they are. The standalone 1 GB prepay USB modem offered at a price of £129.99 for 18 months also reduces the competition to a great extent. With the internet provided through the USB modems, users can literally carry internet in their pockets.

So much offered at so less a price through the initiative, may really result in a massive success of the BT Broadband, as after the implementation of the initiatives, new deal would arrive and it would be the best among all home broadband deals offered by different brands of providers.