BT brings 60Mbps fibre optic broadband to residents in Fife
Broadband provider BT has deployed its fibre to the cabinet network (FTTC) in Dalgety Bay in Fife, Scotland.
The super-fast broadband rollout will initially provide the homes and businesses in the region with download speeds of up to 40Mbps and upload speeds of 10Mbps, however, faster speeds of up to 60Mbps is quite achievable when the fibre optic lines directly link the users, BT said.
“As our roll-out of superfast, fibre-based broadband continues, many more people in other parts of the country, including around 20,000 in Dunfermline, can look forward to faster speeds in the pipeline.” Brendon Dick, BT Director for Scotland said.
High speed internet will benefit the businesses and the local economy as well as improve internet users’ experience when they access applications that require faster speeds such as watching high definition video contents, VoIP based video conferencing and playing high-end online games, the ISP said.
Meanwhile, BT’s Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) programme which runs 21st Century Network across the country will include 199 exchanges (mainly in East Midlands, Wales, Yorkshire and North West) for its ADSL 2+ upgrade to offer speeds of ‘up to’ 20Mbps to more than 18m users within in a year. The high speed broadband internet service is currently available to 14m customers with ADSL 2+ enabled 859 exchanges can now cover more than 55% of UK homes and businesses, according to BT figures.
BT plans to connect more than 20m homes to its advanced copper based broadband network (21CN) by March 2011 while its £2.5 billion fibre based, FTTC broadband network which can currently reach 1.5m homes, will parallelly run to reach 10 million users to offer higher speeds of up to 40Mbps by the middle of 2012. The coverage will then be extended to 66% (two-thirds of UK population) by 2015, BT announced earlier.
