BT outlines broadband plans

Communications and broadband giant BT has outlined plans to trial one gigabit fibre broadband in the Suffolk area, and has added a number of towns to its list of places that will benefit from the fibre broadband rollout.

It has been reported that communications and broadband giant BT is planning to trial one gigabit fibre broadband in the Suffolk area. The provider has also announced that it will be adding another forty rural market towns to its list of places that will be benefitting from fibre based broadband as part of its rollout.

Officials from BT also said that the move would help to support the government’s plans to provide the UK with the best broadband network in Europe by 2015. The trial of one gigabit broadband will commence early next year in Kesgrave, Suffolk, and is designed to show fast BT’s fibre to the home technology will work.

In the meantime BT is continuing with its fibre broadband rollout, and is hoping to win government funding so that it can extend the reach of the services that are being rolled out. Oliva Garfield, BT’s director of strategy, said: “We intend to continually push the limits of our super-fast broadband programme in terms of the technology and the geography.”

BT’s announcement comes prior to a speech about this issue by Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, who recently said in a statement: “I will be setting out on Monday how we can do even more to boost broadband roll-out – by stimulating competition and creating an environment in which business can flourish by removing barriers and cutting costs.”

Source – BBC