Print
Discuss
Send to friend
RSS feedsBT will offer 100Mbit/s broadband connections to 10,000 properties under construction on a new estate in Ebbsfleet, Kent from August this year.
Openreach, the carrier's local access arm, first announced the fibre to the home (FTTH) rollout to be delivered in conjunction with property development firm Land Securities early last year. But is has only now confirmed that it will offer bandwidths more than 10 times faster than current rates.
Current residential broadband connections from Openreach are based on copper cabling, which limits the speeds to 8Mbit/s at best, with up to 24Mbit/s scheduled for this Spring. Faster services offering up to 20Mbit/s based on fibre optic cables are available from Virgin broadband in certain UK regions.
Openreach will use the 100Mbit/s data rates to deliver high speed services such as multi-channel High Definition TV, internet gaming and instant music downloads. The company will also make its services available on a wholesale basis for other carriers to lease.
See also:
Possible uses of liberated bandwidth include high-definition TV and mobile broadband services 13 Dec 2007
Upgrades to UK infrastructure will figure heavily in the regulator's policies for 2008 11 Dec 2007
Tiscali tops a customer satisfaction survey, while BT comes in last 07 Dec 2007The switchover bandwidth should be used for new broadband services, says Ofcom survey 28 Nov 2007
Competitiveness minister Stephen Timms wants stakeholders to discuss bottlenecks to progress 26 Nov 2007The average downstream connection is six per cent quicker at 5.5Mbit/s 27 Nov 2007But growth is slowing as high speed internet access becomes ubiquitous 20 Nov 2007
Access for all will be key plank of Commission's Telecoms Rules reforms to be tabled next month 16 Oct 2007All Network InfrastructureTags: Communications
del.icio.us
Digg this
reddit!
