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BT more than doubles rollout of 100Mb fibre broadband

Friday 09 October 2009 1 Comment

BT has announced it plans to more than double the planned roll-out of its fastest fibreoptic broadband service to 2.5 million homes by 2012.
 

The rollout of fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) technology should offer download speeds of up to 100Mb – with the potential for eventual upgrade to 1Gb if demand exists.

 
Originally, BT had planned to roll out FTTP to a million homes by 2012, with nine million more gaining broadband of up to 40Mb through a fibre connection to the street outside.
 

Steve Robertson, CEO of Openreach, the part of BT responsible for deploying the technology said: “This development shows that we are determined to bring world-leading broadband speeds to UK homes and businesses. Service providers have asked us for more FTTP and so we have listened to them.:

 
BT is spending £1.5 billion on upgrading its broadband network, including the improvement of its existing copper network to offer speeds up to 24Mb.
 
The news follows a recent survey by Cisco that placed the UK 31st out of 66 countries in terms of speed.
 

Robertson said: “The UK already leads the world when it comes to broadband availability and today’s announcement will help the UK climb the speed league tables as well. The UK is well placed but we need to invest for the future so that customers can access the rich applications that will be popular in a few years time.”

 

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    by Carl Barron at 14:04 on 10 Oct 2009Report abuse

    The whole exercise of increasing broadband speed is seriously flawed, as all ISP's have a limited fair usage policy, even those ISPs who claim to give unlimited download still state a fair usage policy is in place. Hence by increasing the download speed the faster you reach your limit, before you either have restrictions placed on you and at worse loose your contract.

    Until such time as this problem is addressed, the push to watch TV via Broadband will only hasten the problems occurrence.

    Signed Carl Barron, Chairman of agpcuk

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