It added 61,000 new fixed broadband customers in the six months to the end of September , compared with an increase of 31,000 in Q1 . The new company has a total UK customer base of 17.8 million , an increase of 486,000 in the UK . We have now secured network sharing agreements across most of our major European markets, and we recently announced a major long-term wholesale partnership with Virgin Media in the UK, in order to improve the utilisation of our network assets. The boost was driven by the expansion of its full - fibre broadband coverage via BT ’s platform , as well as unlimited mobile data plans and 5G.
It added 61,000 new fixed broadband customers in the six months to the end of September , compared with an increase of 31,000 in Q1 . The new company has a total UK customer base of 17.8 million , an increase of 486,000 in the UK . The boost was driven by the expansion of its full - fibre broadband coverage via BT ’s platform , as well as unlimited mobile data plans and 5G.