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RSS fibre 1.5bnBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News The trial is part of the telco's ongoing investment in fibre infrastructure in the UK. Back in 2008 BT announced it would be spending £1.5bn to bring fibre broadband to around 10 million... [05 Nov 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News BT has revealed more details on its planned brownfield pilots of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband tech. Fibre broadband is the superfast successor to the current generation of broadband used in the UK,... [02 Oct 2009]
BT rolls out superfast broadband even faster in one UK city
News Some areas of Glasgow, which were due to become part of BT's fibre deployment this year, will now find themselves connected up with superfast broadband by the autumn. The city was first earmarked to become part of the... [17 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Fibre. A year later and another exec told silicon.com the market wasn't ready to pay for fibre: "You have to be ready to pay for that investment. Yes indeed - it's the next generation of broadband... [14 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News BT has revealed the towns and cities which will get high-speed fibre broadband in the second stage of its £1.5bn rollout. The rollout of fibre - whose high speeds are expected to enable... [09 Jul 2009]
BT to expand 2010 fibre rollout
News BT is planning to double the pace of its forthcoming next generation broadband fibre rollout, bringing up to 100Mbps broadband within reach of more than a million premises next year. CEO Ian Livingston said a faster... [15 May 2009]
South Manchester gets £500,000 high-speed fibre
News South Manchester is to get a new £500,000 open access fibre network. Work to install the fibre is expected to begin this summer, with the first cluster of properties slated to be online by the end of the... [25 Mar 2009]
BT reveals which towns will get fibre first
News BT has revealed the first exchanges that will get fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), starting from next year. We consulted with CPs [communications providers] and local authorities to gauge the level of interest they would see... [23 Mar 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News Cheap mobile broadband and existing fixed services will keep BT from running a fibre monopoly, according to the communications regulator Ofcom. The watchdog today announced it will be imposing no price controls on super... [03 Mar 2009]
Images: Putting next-gen Broadband Britain on the map
Photo Part of BT's £1.5bn planned investment in fibre will see the creation of a fibre to the cabinet deployment in London's Muswell Hill where customers will be able to get speeds of up to... [27 Jan 2009]
'UK needs spectrum-for-speed swap'
News ISPs should be given radio spectrum in exchange for rolling out fibre, a quasi-governmental body has suggested. F is for Fibre Nesta claims the "radical communications deal would see the government grant... [20 Jan 2009]
Bournemouth braced for first Fibrecity homes
News Meanwhile telco BT has also unveiled fibre-based plans, announcing a £1.5bn investment to bring fibre to 10 million UK homes by 2012. The superfast seaside broadband network is being... [20 Jan 2009]
High fibre? How's 145 million connections?
News While the government mulls over the rights and wrongs of a UK fibre rollout, millions of individuals are already throwing themselves onto the fibre bandwagon. According to market watchers Informa, there... [16 Jan 2009]
Broadband for all: A shot in the arm for egov
News For some next generation fibre is seen as the only answer. Earlier this month the Prime Minister named "digital infrastructure" as a possible area ripe for investment to help the UK through the downturn, with suggestions... [14 Jan 2009]
Dear Gordon, here's how to spend that £17bn
News The cost of a full fibre to the home deployment is still probably too steep for this fiscal stimulus - estimated at £28.8bn. That said, last summer telco BT announced it will invest £1.5bn in deploying... [06 Jan 2009]
