BT to speed up superfast broadband
Updated on 09 July 2009
Telecoms giant BT is to speed up the delivery of superfast broadband so it will be available to a million homes by next spring, it has been announced.
The firm said the move will double the original number of homes capable of accessing the technology, rising to 1.5 million by early summer next year.
Steve Robertson, chief executive of Openreach, the division of BT responsible for the roll-out, said: "Fibre is the future and so we're speeding up the pace of our plans.
"We had aimed to get fibre to half a million homes by next March but we're now being far more ambitious. We've received a tremendous response to date and so we're keen to get on with the job.
"BT has invested billions in creating Broadband Britain yet it has done so whilst offering others equal access to its network - demonstrating once again that competition doesn't have to be a barrier to investment."
Almost 70 locations across the UK will be covered by BT's investment programme. The pilots of the technology - delivering speeds of up to 100Mb - went live this week in Muswell Hill, north London, and Whitchurch, south Wales.
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