The BT Group has today published their latest biannual H1 FY25 results to Sept 2024, which reveals that Openreach’s UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network added 2.1 million premises to their coverage in H1 to cover 15.8m, while EE’s 5G mobile coverage increased to 80% of the population (up from 75% in H2 FY25). The fibre build rate has also been accelerated again.
The group’s consumer divisions – including BT, EE and Plusnet – reported being home to a total of 8.234 million broadband connections (down from 8.283m six months ago), which included 2.775m FTTP customers (up from 2,428m). On top of that, BT’s business divisions had 609,000 broadband connections (down from 641k) and 112,000 of those were FTTP lines (up from 94k). BT Wholesale also supplied a total of 691,000 broadband lines to other ISPs (up from 680k) and 82,000 of those were FTTP (up from 62k).
In terms of consumer mobile connections, EE reported total mobile customers of 13.875m (up from 13.859m), including 10.468m using 5G (up from 9.835m). On top of that, BT reported that their fixed broadband consumers gobbled an average of 436.5GB of data per month (up from 409.3GB), which falls to 16.7GB for EE’s post-paid mobile users (up from 16.5GB).
Elsewhere, some 66.8% of BT’s fixed consumer base take a “superfast broadband” product (down from 69.8% in FY24 H2) and 28% (up from 24.4%) have adopted one of their “ultrafast” products – the latter includes both G.fast and FTTP, which these days largely reflects FTTP cannibalising customers from slower (FTTC and ADSL) packages.
ISPreview also noted that 23.1% of BT’s customers are now taking both mobile and broadband (converged), which is slightly down from 22.9%.
Financial Highlights – BT’s Half-Yearly Change
* BT Group revenue = £10,138m (down from £10,421m in H2 FY24)
* BT Group total reported net debt = £(20,267)m (increased from £(19,479)m)
* BT Group profit after tax = £755m (up from £11m)
Openreach’s Network
The table below offers a breakdown of fixed line network coverage and take-up by technology on Openreach’s UK network, which covers the totals for all ISPs that take their products combined (e.g. BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, Zen Internet, Vodafone etc.).
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