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BT reaches one-million milestone

BT has reached its goal of building a million-strong Wi-Fi hotspot network, including 35,000 in the North East, the company has announced.

Now the largest network in the UK and Ireland, the hotspots are available in homes, independent businesses, high street chains and major city centres.

BT Wi-Fi users are also on track to spend more than a billion Wi-Fi minutes online this year*, a peak attributed in part to the massive growth in UK iPhone traffic.

In the last eight months, BT has signed UK deals to provide O2, Orange and Vodafone iPhone customers with BT Openzone Wi-Fi access.

Chris Sayers, BT regional director for the North East, said: “Whether at home, at work or out and about, wireless access is central to keeping people and communities better connected.

“In the UK we’ve grown from 500,000 hotspots to one million within six months and in the North East 35,000 hotspots, includes more than 3000 in Newcastle.

“We will continue to add more to meet demand from smart-phone, laptop, iPod and now e-reader users. This is yet another important milestone, in augmenting the work we are doing in driving high speed connectivity throughout the region.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .