[warrior51]

Whilst waiting for the start of Sky Sports fill in the gaps from this news item from www.wotsat.com

Just '--,000' subscribers joined BT's hybrid Freeview/broadband TV service from April to June.

BT Vision now has 481,000 customers, according to BT's latest figures, which it described as '_________'.

Chief executive Ian Livingston said he is' ________' to see faster growth in TV with BT's new Sky Sports over Freeview packages.

'In TV we are offering great value premium sports packages and can now compete on a more even playing field,' he added.

Fortunately, BT's fibre optic broadband rollout is going better, with more than 1.5m premises connected and around 100,000 more connected each week. The company now has '____' per cent of the UK's retail market for broadband.

[steven3001]

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Originally Posted by warrior51

Whilst waiting for the start of Sky Sports fill in the gaps from this news item from www.wotsat.com

Just '--,000' subscribers joined BT's hybrid Freeview/broadband TV service from April to June.

BT Vision now has 481,000 customers, according to BT's latest figures, which it described as '_________'.

Chief executive Ian Livingston said he is' ________' to see faster growth in TV with BT's new Sky Sports over Freeview packages.

'In TV we are offering great value premium sports packages and can now compete on a more even playing field,' he added.

Fortunately, BT's fibre optic broadband rollout is going better, with more than 1.5m premises connected and around 100,000 more connected each week. The company now has '____' per cent of the UK's retail market for broadband.

Just 14,000 subscribers joined BT's hybrid Freeview/broadband TV service from April to June.

BT Vision now has 481,000 customers, according to BT's latest figures, which it described as 'acceptable'.

Chief executive Ian Livingston said he is expecting to see faster growth in TV with BT's new Sky Sports over Freeview packages.

'In TV we are offering great value premium sports packages and can now compete on a more even playing field,' he added.

Fortunately, BT's fibre optic broadband rollout is going better, with more than 1.5m premises connected and around 100,000 more connected each week. The company now has 40 per cent of the UK's retail market for broadband.



that was easy, just cut and paste it. Did you now know that since they do have Sky Sports BT are connecting 5000 Vision customers per week, which is 20000 per month, 60000 per quarter or 240000 per year and thats as it stands at the moment, there is still massive campaigns going on to make the awareness of Sky Sports. So it would appear it has made a massive difference already

[mlt11]

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Originally Posted by steven3001

that was easy, just cut and paste it. Did you now know that since they do have Sky Sports BT are connecting 5000 Vision customers per week, which is 20000 per month, 60000 per quarter or 240000 per year and thats as it stands at the moment, there is still massive campaigns going on to make the awareness of Sky Sports. So it would appear it has made a massive difference already

Account would also need to be taken of the fact that a lot of people may have been waiting to get Sky Sports via BT. So in the first few weeks it is understandable that there would be an initial surge in new subscribers.

However whether BT will be able to sustain that surge at the same rate for several months (let alone 12 months) is another matter.

The other issue, of course, is churn. How many people are cancelling BT Vision?

To give a feel for the numbers, in the last 12 months:

Approx 1.4m customers joined Sky and 1.0m customers left Sky giving Sky net customer growth of 418,000.

Approx 800,000 customers joined VM and 700,000 customers left VM giving VM net customer growth of 82,000 (VM figures cover all 3 services - ie total customers with at least one of the 3 services).

So even if BT Vision did gain 240,000 customers in a year (and there is a very long way to go before it actually does that) the figure is not that meaningful without knowing the number of customer losses.

[warrior51]

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Originally Posted by steven3001

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that was easy, just cut and paste it. Did you now know that since they do have Sky Sports BT are connecting 5000 Vision customers per week, which is 20000 per month, 60000 per quarter or 240000 per year and thats as it stands at the moment, there is still massive campaigns going on to make the awareness of Sky Sports. So it would appear it has made a massive difference already

Wow... impressive.. you seem to have omitted the link to the article that informs us of these figures though.

[DeanDS]

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Originally Posted by warrior51

Wow... impressive.. you seem to have omitted the link to the article that informs us of these figures though.

Is that because said article is linked in your first post?

[warrior51]

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Originally Posted by DeanDS

Is that because said article is linked in your first post?

Correct, there is a link to my first post. I was referring to the later figures posted by the reply. There is no link to those said figures of 5000 additional Vision customers per week as suggested by the poster. He seems to have the knowledge to easily "cut and paste".....or are we to assume, without such evidence, that he has more information on BT Vision customer uptake than their own Chief Executive Mr.Livingstone?

[littleboo]

Maybe because he works in Vision sales ?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...9&postcount=76

[scotty2808]

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Originally Posted by warrior51

Correct, there is a link to my first post. I was referring to the later figures posted by the reply. There is no link to those said figures of 5000 additional Vision customers per week as suggested by the poster. He seems to have the knowledge to easily "cut and paste".....or are we to assume, without such evidence, that he has more information on BT Vision customer uptake than their own Chief Executive Mr.Livingstone?

Fairly sure this was because the CEO announced on Q1 figures covering April-June.

Sky Sports was announced in Q2 - There will be stats flying around inside BT on performance as our fellow poster has indicated (since he works in that area) but there will probably be no official comment until the Q2 results in October.

[swills]

There is also this from the same link:

Just 14,000 subscribers joined BT's hybrid Freeview/broadband TV service from April to June.

BT Vision now has 481,000 customers, according to BT's latest figures, which it described as 'acceptable'.

[warrior51]

Anyway I got the gaps wrong

I put.... 1,000 -- suicidal --- desperate --- 101

[steven3001]

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Originally Posted by warrior51

Correct, there is a link to my first post. I was referring to the later figures posted by the reply. There is no link to those said figures of 5000 additional Vision customers per week as suggested by the poster. He seems to have the knowledge to easily "cut and paste".....or are we to assume, without such evidence, that he has more information on BT Vision customer uptake than their own Chief Executive Mr.Livingstone?

as someone pointed out I work in sales for BT so I know just how many Vision sales they are flogging at the moment and its a hell of a lot more than they were doing.