BT says it is speeding up plans to bring super-fast fibre broadband to the nation after promising that over 1.5 million homes and businesses will have access to the connections by 2010.
The good news for other ISPs is that they too will have access to the infastructure BT creates in a £1.5 billion investment into the new technology, just as they did with Broadband Britain.
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BT is claiming impressive initial download speeds of 40-meg, rising to 60-meg as the system picks up speed, beating Virgin’s 50-meg cable speeds currently on offer. Uploading will eventually rise to 15-meg.
Initial trials of the service went live this week and BT has now announced 69 more locations across the UK. Have a gander here to see if [...]
Excerpt from original post by Priya Ganapati and software by Elliott Back
