BT makes further fibre broadband customer gains

BT made further significant gains to its fibre optic broadband customer base in the final quarter of last year, the telecoms giant's latest financial results publication has revealed.

Some 95,000 new customers signed up for the company's Infinity family of super-fast broadband products during the three-month period, taking the total subscriber base to more than 400,000.

The internet service provider could be set for additional fibre broadband growth in the coming months, as it is planning to roll out the technology to 178 new exchange locations over the next two phases of its national deployment programme.

In the spring, BT is also due to roughly double the download speeds offered by its fibre-to-the-cabinet service.

BT chief executive Ian Livingston commented: "Our fibre rollout has accelerated, bringing super-fast broadband within reach of over seven million homes and businesses."

The announcement comes shortly after the company revealed it will deploy fibre optic broadband to a further 277,000 commercial and residential properties in Scotland by the end of this year.