10/4/2010 11:44:55 AM
IT Comms news: 2011 BT Exchange Fibre Upgrades named
BT Openreach has named yet another tranche of exchanges to be
upgraded to fibre.
Those exchanges include Birmingham Central, Wapping in London,
Mumbles in Wales and Taunton in Somerset. This is in addition to
the 303 named in March and are part of a next generation broadband
rollout to which BT has pledged £2.5bn by 2015.
The newly announced exchanges will provide c.40Mbps download
speeds, with some capable of 100 Mbps.
The full list of exchanges reach urban and rural locations
alike, from north to south, east to west. The news comes on
the same day that BT have announced they are to survey the country
in order to ascertain where the demand the the next wave of
upgrades should be.
Damian Hicklin
IT
& Communications Divisional Manager
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