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Sky plans to extend it's broadband availability to more homes earlier
than it had expected.
It said that it's nationwide coverage would be up to 70 percent of UK homes
by June, six months ahead of it's schedule. So far 771 exchanges have been
enabled for Sky's services, which means that it's available to 50 percent of
homes.
Sky now has 259,000 customers, but it claims to have 84,000 bookings in the
system, which mans that either it has a sudden rush of orders, or that it is
taking longer than expected to connect customers. Sky admitted it's provisioning
was "slower than we hoped" during November and December, but said on
average, 90 percent of customers are now being connected to broadband within 15
days.
| "The rollout of our all-IP broadband network is progressing
ahead of schedule. As a result, we now reach more households than
the entire UK cable network." |
| James Murdoch chief executive Sky |
Sky aims to have 700,000 broadband customer by the end of the year, so an
acquisition of smaller ISPs could be on the cards.
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