BT enjoys the former becomes national Telecoms monopoly in the battle to dominate the broadband market. Photo: Tim Ireland/PAThe race to connect UK households to broadband network is won by just two operators, leaving a lot of competitors behind.
BT BSkyB group and surging ahead of rivals, according to a number of updates this week from the major broadband providers. The former national monopoly capitalised on its large telephone customer base to pull in an extra 141,000 broadband subscribers in the last three months.
The increase saw BT take 60% of all new customers during the quarter, consolidating its share of 20 m UK broadband home at 29%.
Sky, which reports tomorrow is forecast shows an increase of 154,000 home, after having converted several of his 10 m TV customers, and thanks to a new strategy for chasing only broad band subscribers.
However, lost Virgin Media, the second largest supplier with 21.5% of the UK's 20 m broadband-connected households, 18,600 customers after a lot of students switched their service for the summer.
TalkTalk, which was created in 2009 because carphone Warehouse internet merged its activities with Tiscali and now controls 21% of the market, lost 27,000 customers in the quarter. The company has concentrated on improving loyalty through better customer service rather than chasing new business.
Of mobile enterprises with largest broadband following, Orange has lost approximately 80,000 customers since last year, and O2 will remain flat.
' Course for the Cloud and BT, have an existing customer base, a captive audience is a huge competitive advantage in selling in other products, "says Chris Williams, of price comparer Simplifydigital.
Talktalks share price increased by 3 p to 141 p as it announced half-year results, after investors saw progress in improving customer experience and a promised £ 40 m in cost savings from the merger.
Calls to its ancillary services has almost halved in a year and three-quarters of new clients are connected within 20 days, compared with half six months earlier.
Mark James said "BT has benefited from the turmoil on the TalkTalk," at a mediator Liberum capital. But he warned: "as the market continues to grow, the sky is taking share from BT and Virgin Media. And as TalkTalk gets its act together, we want to see people make their decision based on price and BTS copper is pricey. "
BT reported a revenue dip 5% and a 20% increase in profit before tax in the three months to June 30. Its Global Services division, services business clients, won the £ 1.6bn of business in the quarter, including its biggest ever contract with the Brazilian post office.
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