BT pushes the boundaries of Super-Fast Broadband
BT today announced its latest plans for super-fast broadband, to further support the Government’s vision of creating the best super-fast broadband network in Europe by 2015. The company’s commitment involves plans to conduct a technical trial of one Gigabit fibre broadband speeds in Kesgrave, Suffolk and the inclusion of up to 40 rural market towns in the next phase of BT’s deployment of super-fast fibre broadband.
The 1Gb/s trial will commence in early 2011 and will see BT deliver some of the fastest residential speeds over fibre broadband anywhere in the world today. The purpose of the technical trial is to demonstrate the maximum speed capabilities of BT’s Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) product - namely its ability to deliver downstream speeds of 1Gb/s and upstream speeds of 400Mb/s to businesses and consumers, subject to the appropriate network conditions and customer equipment. The trial will test the delivery of broadband speeds ten times faster than BT’s current FTTP product, which is set to launch commercially next year.
As part of BT’s commitment to delivering faster broadband speeds to more rural parts of the UK and in response to high customer demand for fibre in these areas, selected market towns where premises and cabinets are suitably clustered will now be eligible for fibre deployment. BT will therefore be including up to 40 rural market towns in the next phase of exchanges for fibre broadband. These areas will be able to enjoy the benefits of the technology from late 2011/early 2012. BT plans to announce the next list of exchanges in January 2011.
BT remains committed to its £2.5 billion pledge to roll-out fibre broadband to two thirds of the UK by 2015 and to working with Government to find ways of delivering fibre to the remaining third of UK homes and businesses.
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