BT announced broadband price cuts of up to 25% for its consumer services. The prices will now be as follows:
- BT Broadband (512k) – down from £27 per month to £24.99
- BT Yahoo! Broadband 512k – down from £29.99 per month to £26.99
- BT Yahoo! Broadband 1 Mbps – down from £40.99 per month to £29.99,
- BT Broadband Basic (512kbps), remains at £19.99 per month, now with free modem and connection.
All products will continue to offer free connection and modem when purchased online.
BT also raised the monthly bandwidth allowances to “levels significantly higher than the usage of the overwhelming majority of broadband customers.” For example, the 512k service has a monthly allowance of 15 GB.
BT also confirmed the deployment dates for making broadband available to more than a thousand communities across the UK. The move follows an earlier announcement that BT would be rolling out broadband so that 99.6% of UK households are connected to broadband exchanges by August 2005. http://www.bt.com/broadband
- As of 14-May-2004, BT reported an installed base of 2.45 million Wholesale broadband lines, an increase of 162% on the number of connections 12 months ago, with net additions in the quarter growing at more than 35,000 per week.