UK fixed broadand take up sees slow down in Q3 2011
Fixed broadband connections in the UK actually grew on a slower pace between Q2 2011 and Q3 2011, the Telecommunications Market Data Tables Q3 2011 from Ofcom has revealed.
According to the regulator, the total fixed broadband lines that include BT, Virgin Media and LLU and non-LLU providers have reached 20.275 million in Q3, as against 20.077 million in Q2.
In third quarter of last year, BT Retail and Virgin Media continue to remain the biggest broadband internet providers with a broadband subscription base of 5.56 million and 4.1 million respectively.
LLU (local loop unbundled) providers like BskyB, TalkTalk and O2 have accounted for 8,020,000 connections, adding 0.233 million new subscribers in Q3 while DSL based, non-LLU operators like Zen Internet have accounted for 2.6 million lines in the same period.
Ofcom report has also revealed that the total home phone lines exceeded 33.2 million and the UK has more than 81.4 million mobile connections in Q3 2011.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Telecommunications Adjudicator (OTA2) also offered its latest UK broadband stats according to which BT Wholesale has more than 6.28 million users on its landline network, while total unbundled (LLU) broadband lines have reached 8.02 million by the end of January 2012.
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