BT Shows First Fiber-Optic Broadband Rollout Plans

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."

Comments

Re:Great!

[Jurily]

So we'll have much faster BitTorrent downloads? Oh wait..

Tor and freenet should work better too.

Re:FTTC? Next gen? Another UK FAIL!

[Eunuchswear]

Yeah, I was trolling a bit there. I should have said "current gen" rather than "last gen". Here FTTH rollout started the year before last.

Re:Why Scotland?

[Dan B.]

You sir, have clearly never been to Edinburgh. All the Scottish Bankers and Politicians are there, in great numbers. Halifax Bank of SCOTLAND, Royal Bank of SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH Equitable (pensions, banking) SCOTTISH Widows (pensions), SCOTTISH Parliament, and so on, and so on.

English Bankers and Politicians are quite capable of fucking up their own country.