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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. FTTC? Next gen? Another UK FAIL! by Eunuchswear · · Score: 0, Troll

    FTTH is last gen. FTTC is the one before that.

    Even my crappy cable company has installed 100Mbps FTTC here my low-rent burbs. (With in-your-face in-the-air cables no less!).

    At my offices people are bitching that they've only got FFTH PON rather the PTP installed the other side of the street.

    (Disclaimer for UK readers, I'm in France, so you are now allowed to stick your fingers in your ears and go LA LA LA I can't hear you).

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  2. Why Scotland? by Dark$ide · · Score: 2, Troll
    Why Scotland? Nobody lives in Scotland, they send all their bankers and politicians south of the border to ruin my life and charge me exorbitant taxes.

    I wish BT would get a move on with this in England. I'm on aluminium cable last 800 metres from the cabinet to my house and that struggles to run 512/216 ADSL.

    If they want a beta tester I'll do that for them.

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