BT speeds up fibre deployment

03 February 2012 | Kavit Majithia


Telecoms giant BT has confirmed today it plans to roll out fibre-optic broadband with speeds of up to 300Mbps to UK homes and businesses as early as next year.

Expected to be one of the fast connections in Europe, BT says it will roll out fibre-based broadband to over 10 million premises in the UK by 2012, three million more than its present reach. It will commence smaller upgrade to...


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