So far 950,000 premises are connected to fibre broadband over the BT network, the company said. BT previously said it had 750,000 fibre customers at the end of July.

Fibre connections are still a small part of BT's customer base, however, as it has a total of 17 million broadband customers connected to its network, most of them through traditional and much slower copper wires.

of its top-of-the-range BT Infinity broadband package from 100mbps to 160mbps. BT Infinity 160mb is a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTH) broadband service, and is currently only available from a limited number of exchanges.