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BT Shows First Fiber-Optic Broadband Rollout Plans

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-have-two-re-fibers-per-post dept.

MJackson writes "BT has revealed new details about the roll-out of its £1.5bn programme to deploy super fast fibre optic broadband to as many as 10 million UK homes (40%) by 2012. Scotland will become one of the first places to benefit from next-generation broadband services, with more than 34,000 homes and businesses in Edinburgh and Glasgow receiving speeds of up to 40Mbps and potentially 60Mbps from early next year (2010). Overall, BT Openreach, which is responsible for ensuring that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's local network, aims to deploy Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) based next generation broadband services next summer (2010) to 500,000 homes and businesses in the UK."

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  1. A big step forward by renesch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    now they will be able to install CCTVs even in private homes

  2. Re:Anonymous Coward by starsky51 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're right. Progress is a pain in the arse!

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