BT has announced that it has accelerated its super-fast broadband plans, with a number of new locations to get speedy web access in 2010.
According to the telco, 1.5 million homes are set to get access to fibre-optic broadband by the summer of 2010 – with a million of these to get switched on by March next year.
This will put BT on track to bring high-speed web access to 40 per cent of homes in the UK by 2012.
Tremendous response
"Fibre is the future and so we're speeding up the pace of our plans. We had aimed to get fibre to half a million homes by next March but we're now being far more ambitious," explained Steve Robertson, CEO of Openreach.
"We've received a tremendous response to date and so we're keen to get on with the job.
"BT has invested billions in creating Broadband Britain yet it has done so whilst offering others equal access to its network – demonstrating once again that competition doesn't have to be a barrier to investment."
In all, 69 locations are earmarked for the upgrade – stretching from Bristol in the South West to Edinburgh in Scotland.
To view the whole list, point your browser to www.BT.com and click on the News section of the website.
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neo
December 31st 2009
3. yer right, its a ploy for ppl to stay and suffer from there unreliable connections i personaly find there service terrible,as for super fast broadband it will never happen in my area dn75wa,and as for the date lol there is no way tey will upgrade 10 million ppl by 2012 places like london/south will take priority over everywhere else just like everything does yet ppl like me that are paying for the dearest package and still only getting 4 meg that drops to 1.1 meg after 4pm i use my conection for online gaming codwaw and my ping is terrible unplayable after 3pm bt is ajoke
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shanek
July 9th 2009
2. @not_the_messiah - check here for the list: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4004-bt-speeds-up-fibre-rollout.html
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not_the_messiah
July 9th 2009
1. I cannot find the list at that URL in the article...
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