BT touches 250,000 broadband connections in Q3'13

BT Group plc touched 250,000 broadband connections with around 1.25million homes and businesses now taking a fiber based service as the company reveled in its third quarter results.

According to Ian Livingston, chief executive,"Our fiber plans are helping to make the UK a broadband leader in Europe. More than 13 million premises can access our fiber broadband and we are passing around 100,000 additional premises every week. Take-up is growing strongly with around 1.25 million homes and businesses now enjoying the benefits of faster speeds. This

gives us an excellent platform for our push into TV and Sport later this year. Our pre-season training is going well.

He further added that "we have secured attractive new content and world class production facilities at the Olympic Park and are building a strong team."

The report also stated that the total broadband market net additions grew 7% to 281,000 of which the British telecom giant added 122,000 retail broadband customers, a 44% share.

"Our engineers have worked tirelessly following some of the wettest weather on record. Not only did they complete a record number of field visits in the quarter, they also connected a further 281,000 homes and businesses to broadband and helped us grow the number of landlines. BT Global Services has also done well securing £1.9bn of new orders, up 17% said Ian Livingston.