UK telco BT added 30,000 subscribers for its hybrid DTT+IP television service 'BT Vision' in the first quarter of this year, bringing the total to 575,000 customers.
The telco adds that it continued to enhance its service in the period, with BBC iPlayer being currently rolled out to subscriber set-top boxes, and faster HD downloads now available.
The full BBC iPlayer package is being made available on BT Vision, offering almost all of the TV and radio programmes available online through a simple and intuitive BBC iPlayer-branded application, and replacing the BBC content on BT Vision's existing 50-hour 'TV Replay' package, which offers a small selection of BBC TV programmes.
BT also reached 144,000 subscribers for its new high-speed fibre-based broadband service 'BT Infinity', with additions currently running at an average of around 5,000 per week. The company reports that in areas where it is available, almost half of new broadband customers are now opting for BT Infinity.
BT reports that it has invested a total of GBP 600mn (USD 980mn) in its fibre rollout programme, with an average of around 80,000 new premises being passed every week. The telco expects to have passed 5mn homes within the next few weeks, and aims to increase this figure to 10mn by 2012.
During 2012, the company will continue to expand its 100 Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service and to test a 1 Gbps service, and expects to roughly double its Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) speeds to up to 80 Mbps. Future changes are expected to take the potential speed of its FTTC services to over 100 Mbps.
Total revenues across all operations and markets for the first quarter of this year reached GBP 5.055bn, down 6% from one year previously, while adjusted pre-tax profits rose 21% to reach GBP 610mn.
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