By Natasha Lomas, 27 January 2009 13:16
England: Unsurprisingly, the majority of Blighty's next-gen plans are being cooked up in England - their locations are shown here.
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 will also benefit from 2012 Olympic investment, as fibre is laid down to ensure the Olympic Park Network can handle a whopping 6Gbps.
Outside London, BT is also planning to lay fibre - rather than copper - to premises in a regeneration development project in Ebbsfleet, Kent. The project will ultimately see around 10,000 homes, six million square feet of commercial space and three million square feet of retail, leisure and community facilities furnished with up to 100Mbps broadband.
Bournemouth too is to get a fibre boost with the rollout of H2O's Fibrecity - a commercial 100Mbps network that could hook up tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the town by the end of 2010.
Meanwhile a three-year project is due to start imminently in South Yorkshire that will bring 25Mbps+ broadband via fibre to the cabinet to some 550,000 homes and 40,000 businesses in the region - with the first services due to launch in the second half of this year.
And in the Midlands a project called LightSpeed Derby is seeking to have a locally managed core fibre network linking up the premises of all public sector agencies, all major businesses, business parks, and all major new developments by 2012. By 2016, its aim is to have next-generation broadband access available to 100 per cent of households.
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