Business will be changed by high speed broadband services say BT

BT has announced that it will continue to work on rolling out its own super-fast fibre optic broadband service but has advised that a lot of work will be needed before the government will be able to fulfil plans to deploy its own fibre-based broadband network.

A senior executive at BT has advised that faster broadband connections will be available to a large number of people in the UK well before plans by the government to deploy a high-speed broadband network using a broadband levy are sorted out.

Dr Tim Whitley, the corporate strategy director at BT advised that its plans to roll out its fibre optic network were already underway whilst the government had a lot to sort out with the plan it had made.

In the recent interview with Dr Whitley talked about exactly what kind of service broadband users would want and that more clarification would be required regarding this in the governments universal broadband proposals.

The ‘super-fast broadband’ service that offers speeds of 20Mbps or higher, which will be required by many businesses was also discussed and also the issue from a consumer-level service perspective that most users will not know what they will be using this high-speed broadband for until they get it, although there have been some interesting ideas from BT about this.

Dr Whitley advised that an increase in broadband upload speeds, which could be as high as 15Mbps, would be one of the major differences other than the normal download speeds, adding “That’s really important for a variety of reasons, and it heralds a whole range of service propositions.”

He also added that there would be an increase in the use of media rich content link video by companies if upload speed were found to be more reliable, saying “Think about the amount of video content and downloads today – if uploads equal today’s downloads, then two-way HD video conferencing, or video surveillance, can be done very comfortably.”

Source – Eweek Europe