BT launch super-fast broadband in Cardiff, Manchester

UK Broadband provider, BT announced more details on the upgrading of its exchanges with fibre-to-the-cabinet technology. The upgrade would enable its network to deliver download speeds of up to 40Mbps in areas like Cardiff, Taff Well, Bury, Didsbury, Failsworth, Heaton Moor, Rusholme and other areas of Greater Manchester.

Access to super-fast, fibre based broadband services would allow the residents and businesses in these regions to use ‘a wide range of innovative new applications’, BT hoped.

Earlier, BT has revealed its fibre broadband rollout plans that would bring faster services to more than 64,000 homes and businesses in Wales by the middle of 2010. As for Cardiff, over 18,000 fibre optic broadband lines should be available for the homes and businesses, as per BT’s target.

The largest communication network provider in UK, has planned to spend £1.5 billion on its fibre optic broadband rollout that will connect over 40% of the UK homes (roughly 10 million) by the summer 2012.

The ISP has also hinted out, earlier, that many rural parts could be left out, when considering which areas should have higher priority over others for fibre deployment. Organisations like CLA continue to urge for more investments on rural broadband infrastructure for the growth of small rural businesses, in particular.