The cost of BET will need to be explained by BT

An announcement made recently by BT for a wider range of areas throughout the UK to receive fixed-line broadband solutions from on of its subsidiary companies has been met with comments from an industry expert.

A new service that, according to claims by BT, would prove to be of great use in parts of the country where users were too far away from a local exchange that would be piloted by its Openreach division was announced last week by the Telecoms giant.

Although the plans that have been announced by BT would go a long way to help to achieve the goals laid down by the government in their Digital Britain report to provide broadband connectivity to every home in the UK, a number of question over cost need to be answered first according to a spokesman for a popular broadband information site.

The spokesman for the site advised that it is very important that BT explain how the service cost will be covered for the consumer as the Broadband Enabling Technology (BET) is still only in its trial phase.

He went on to add “Back in February, when Openreach first mentioned this, they were talking about figures between £1,000 and £3,000 per line to install it, which is obviously a huge amount of money for a retail product.”

The spokesman did, however, go on to advise that for many users it can be incredibly frustrating for those people who are currently not able to take advantage of accessing the internet over a broadband connection and that anything that can help to get high-speed broadband services to these remote locations should be welcomed.

The BET system will be able to provide stable fixed-line broadband connection over more than twice the current distance of 5km, with service available at up to 12km from the nearest local exchange, according to claims by Openreach.