Haddington to get faster broadband

The government launched the Broadband Delivery UK program last year in efforts to improve the broadband networks in the UK and push for more people to get online. The goal of BDUK is to provide universal broadband access with speeds of at least 2Mbps to users in the country. The government also hoped to bring next-generation broadband services to at least ninety percent of the UK.

The goal is, obviously, to equip the majority of Britain and eventually the whole of it with superfast broadband connections. Superfast broadband is defined by the government as “having a potential headline access speed of at least 20Mb, with no upper limit.”

BT Broadband has been rolling out fibre since last year to many areas all across the country. The Internet service provider is one of the major players in the BDUK program.

To ring in the new year is the announcement that around 5,000 homes and establishments in Haddington will have their broadband networks upgraded by next summer.

Haddington is one of the 47 Scottish communities that is included in BT Broadband’s latest list of areas that will soon have superfast broadband connections installed. These upgrades by BT will push the maximum broadband speeds that users can enjoy in the area to up to 20Mbps, which is more than twice what they are currently able to access on their broadband connections.

This technology will be rolled out and made available to approximately 1.5 million users all across the included areas by summer of this year. This is around seventy two percent of the entire premises.

This investment is part of BT’s ongoing £2.5 billion fibre rollout in the UK. The goal of the broadband giant is to finish their fibre deployment by the year 2014.

Source – East Lothian News