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RSS fibre 100mbpsBT takes superfast fibre broadband to 2.5 million homes
News BT has announced it is rolling out superfast fibre broadband directly to 2.5 million UK homes and businesses. FTTP (fibre to the premises) will allow for for download speeds of 100Mbps... [12 Oct 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 a new range of... [09 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News BT began a fibre broadband pilot on Monday in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill and the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of... [06 Jul 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News The Digital Britain report has drawn criticism from politicians and technology experts over its proposals for dealing with fibre rollouts and illegal file-sharing. Just as importantly, the government will still levy... [18 Jun 2009]
BT doubles broadband speeds to 20Mbps
News The faster speeds are based on BT's next-generation 21CN platform but have nothing to do with fibre-to-the-home, a technology currently being trialled by the company. Currently, 100Mbps... [04 Jun 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... [15 May 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News However BT has been making noise on the speed front - pledging to roll out fibre to 10 million homes by 2012, enabling speeds of up to 100Mbps and opening up the possibility that Virgin could be lose its... [08 May 2009]
Ericsson racks up 500Mbps speeds over copper
News VDSL2 is a technology that some, such as BT, have mooted as a part of a nationwide, fibre-to-the-cabinet, next-generation access rollout. In this scenario, fibre connectivity would go as far as the... [17 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 40Mbps. The capital... [27 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 built by sewer... [20 Jan 2009]
High fibre, high investment and high speeds
News As the year closed, Virgin Media announced a speed bump for its users, offering broadband speeds of up to 50Mbps for £51 per month using a mixture of fibre and coaxial cable. The £29bn fibre bill We all... [29 Dec 2008]
Bournemouth's sewer Fibrecity kicks off
News The scheme will give the town's residents a chance to connect to an FTTP (fibre to the premises) network, built by H2O Networks, with speeds up to 100Mbps. The city's sewers will play home to the... [17 Oct 2008]
BT to plug fibre in London, Wales
News A recent Broadband Stakeholder Group report into the cost of rolling out fibre in Blighty estimates a full fibre to the home rollout would cost almost £29bn, while a FTTC deployment would have a price... [14 Oct 2008]
UK fat pipes sluggish from lack of fibre
News F is for Fibre The BT plan aims to give 10 million UK homes fibre by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1,000Mbps in the future. According to the latest... [30 Sep 2008]
