BT Wi-Fi hotspots now reach 3.5 million customers across the UK and Ireland

February 6, 2012

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LONDON -- BT today announced that its Wi-Fi hotspot numbers have hit a new high with 3.5 million across the UK and Ireland. BT has also launched a new BT FON app for BT home broadband customers giving easier hotspot login from a Blackberry.

BT Total Broadband customers have free and unlimited access to the one of the largest Wi-Fi networks in the world. The numbers include more than 380,000 in London, 25,000 in Birmingham and Leeds, around 20,000 in Manchester, Edinburgh and Sheffield, and more than 11,000 in Liverpool, Brighton, Bristol and Cardiff.

The new Blackberry app, which makes it simple to get online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9qJZPM0sfs follows the success of apps for Apple and Android users. The apps are in response to the smartphone and tablet boom. These devices are now overtaking laptops and PCs as the Wi-Fi device of choice.

BT Wi-Fi hotspots are free to six million BT broadband home and business customers. They are found at homes, independent businesses, city centres and well-known brands including Hilton, Thistle, Ramada Jarvis and Macdonald hotels’, Starbucks , Welcome Break and RoadChef Costa service stations, American Airlines and SkyTeam airport lounges plus Network Rail stations.

BT Group plc (NYSE: BT; London: BTA)

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