UK broadband connections for residential and small businesses are at the 17.6 million mark after a 1.6% increase in the last quarter and up 8.4% on the previous year.
This 1.6% equates to around 281,000 new broadband connections with a large part of this growth down to the increased number of LLU connections.
BT broadband have a market share of 26.4% at the end of March 2009 and this equates to around 4.6 million BT broadband customers, 3.7 million broadband connections were from Virgin Media who are a cable provider offering fibre broadband.
Other broadband providers (excluding LLU) have around 3.4 million customers and LLU operators who operate their own broadband have around 5.7 million customers.